Unifying features of systemic and cerebral amyloidosis.

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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 particular ultrastructural and tinctorial appearance, a beta-pleated sheet structure, and are codeposited with a group of...

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