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 fibrillar pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Treusch, Sebastian, Cyr, Douglas M., Lindquist, Susan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Landes Bioscience 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/54770
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1307-882X