Researchers use new approach to study the mechanisms of cellular uptake of amyloid beta – News-Medical.Net

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 3 2020
One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease is the formation of amyloid plaques–sticky clumps of a protein called amyloid beta–that collect between neurons in the brain.
Increasingly, however, attention has turned from these insoluble plaques to soluble forms of amyloid beta that can be taken up into neurons and are highly neurotoxic.
A new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, pinpoints a segment of the amyloid beta protein…

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