Article
Unifying features of systemic and cerebral amyloidosis.
Molecular neurobiology - 1 Feb 1994
Ghiso J, Wisniewski T, Frangione B
Abstract excerpt
Amyloidosis is a generic term for a group of clinically and biochemically diverse diseases that are characterized by the deposition of an insoluble fibrillar protein in the extracellular space. Over 16 biochemically distinct amyloids are known. Despite this diversity, all amyloids have a particul...
Topics
- Alzheimer Disease
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Amyloid
- Amyloid Neuropathies
- Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor
- Amyloidosis
- Brain Diseases
- Chaperonins
- Genes
- Global Health
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Organ Specificity
- Prealbumin
- Prion Diseases
- Proteins
- Serum Amyloid A Protein