Amyloid Deposits: Protection Against Toxic Protein Species?

Neurodegenerative diseases ranging from Alzheimer's disease and polyglutamine diseases to transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are associated with the aggregation and accumulation of misfolded proteins. In several cases the intracellular and extracellular protein deposits contain a fibrill...

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Main Authors: Treusch, Sebastian (Contributor), Cyr, Douglas M. (Author), Lindquist, Susan (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Landes Bioscience, 2010-05-12T18:01:52Z.
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