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Alzheimer's disease: Initial report of the purification and characterization of a novel cerebrovascular amyloid protein

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A purified protein derived from the twisted beta-pleated sheet fibrils in cerebrovascular amyloidosis associated with Alzheimer's disease has been isolated and Amino acid sequence analysis and a computer search reveals this protein to have no homology with any protein sequenced thus far.
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This article is published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.The article was published on 1984-05-16. It has received 4795 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biochemistry of Alzheimer's disease & P3 peptide.

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The Amyloid Hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease: Progress and Problems on the Road to Therapeutics

TL;DR: It has been more than 10 years since it was first proposed that the neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD) may be caused by deposition of amyloid β-peptide in plaques in brain tissue and the rest of the disease process is proposed to result from an imbalance between Aβ production and Aβ clearance.
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Alzheimer's disease: the amyloid cascade hypothesis

TL;DR: An extensive catalog of genes that act in a migrating cell is provided, unique molecular functions involved in nematode cell migration are identified, and similar functions in humans are suggested.
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Alzheimer's Disease: Genes, Proteins, and Therapy

TL;DR: Evidence that the presenilin proteins, mutations in which cause the most aggressive form of inherited AD, lead to altered intramembranous cleavage of the beta-amyloid precursor protein by the protease called gamma-secretase has spurred progress toward novel therapeutics and provided discrete biochemical targets for drug screening and development.
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Soluble protein oligomers in neurodegeneration: lessons from the Alzheimer's amyloid beta-peptide.

TL;DR: Findings in other neurodegenerative diseases indicate that a broadly similar process of neuronal dysfunction is induced by diffusible oligomers of misfolded proteins.
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Physical basis of cognitive alterations in Alzheimer's disease: synapse loss is the major correlate of cognitive impairment.

TL;DR: Both linear regressions and multivariate analyses correlating three global neuropsychological tests with a number of structural and neurochemical measurements performed on a prospective series of patients with Alzheimer's disease and 9 neuropathologically normal subjects reveal very powerful correlations with all three psychological assays.
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Cleavage of Structural Proteins during the Assembly of the Head of Bacteriophage T4

TL;DR: Using an improved method of gel electrophoresis, many hitherto unknown proteins have been found in bacteriophage T4 and some of these have been identified with specific gene products.
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Cleavage of structural proteins during the assemble of the head of bacterio-phage T4

U. K. Laemmli
- 01 Jan 1970 - 
TL;DR: Using an improved method of gel electrophoresis, many hitherto unknown proteins have been found in bacteriophage T4 and some of these have been identified with specific gene products as mentioned in this paper.
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Amyloid deposits and amyloidosis. The beta-fibrilloses (first of two parts).

TL;DR: A large number of patients with atypical central giant cell granuloma are receiving treatment with a cocktail of chemotherapy and/or radiation, and the prognosis is improving.
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X-ray diffraction studies on amyloid filaments

TL;DR: The filamentous protein component of amyloid-laden tissue was studied by x-ray diffraction procedures and it is suggested that the axes of the chain segments run transverse to the filament axis.
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Amyloid Fibril Proteins: Proof of Homology with Immunoglobulin Light Chains by Sequence Analyses

TL;DR: The sequences of the 35 and 36 amino-terminal amino acids of two purified amyloid fibril proteins have been determined and indicate that these two proteins are derived from homogeneous immunoglobulin light chains of variable region subgroup VκI.
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