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Apolipoprotein E affects amyloid formation but not amyloid growth in vitro: mechanistic implications for apoE4 enhanced amyloid burden and risk for Alzheimer's disease.
Amyloid : the international journal of experimental and clinical investigation : the official journal of the International Society of Amyloidosis - 1 Mar 2002
Esler William P, Marshall Jeffrey R, Stimson Evelyn R, Ghilardi Joseph R, Vinters Harry V, Mantyh Patrick W, Maggio John E
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The transition from the partially folded soluble Abeta monomer to insoluble Abeta amyloidfibrils is seminal to the formation and growth of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease (AD). A detailed understanding of the role of AD risk factors in these processes is essential to understanding the physiochemical nature of this conformational rearrangement. The apolipoprotein E epsilon4 allele, a risk factor for AD,...
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