Protein misfolding, amyloid formation, and human disease: a summary of progress over the last decade

F Chiti, CM Dobson - Annual review of biochemistry, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Peptides and proteins have been found to possess an inherent tendency to convert from
their native functional states into intractable amyloid aggregates. This phenomenon is …

Amyloid β oligomers in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis, treatment, and diagnosis

KL Viola, WL Klein - Acta neuropathologica, 2015 - Springer
Protein aggregation is common to dozens of diseases including prionoses, diabetes,
Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Over the past 15 years, there has been a paradigm shift in …

Amyloid β oligomers constrict human capillaries in Alzheimer's disease via signaling to pericytes

R Nortley, N Korte, P Izquierdo, C Hirunpattarasilp… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION In Alzheimer's disease (AD), the production of amyloid β (Aβ) oligomers
and downstream tau dysfunction are thought to cause neuronal damage, in particular a loss …

The amyloid beta peptide: a chemist's perspective. Role in Alzheimer's and fibrillization

IW Hamley - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
This review is concerned with the role of fibrillization of the amyloid β (Aβ)-peptide in
Alzheimer's disease (AD). The perspective is that of a physical chemist, and one aim is to …

[HTML][HTML] Soluble amyloid-β oligomers as synaptotoxins leading to cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease

ST Ferreira, MV Lourenco, MM Oliveira… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia in the elderly, and affects
millions of people worldwide. As the number of AD cases continues to increase in both …

Localized surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy and sensing

KA Willets, RP Van Duyne - Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem., 2007 - annualreviews.org
Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) spectroscopy of metallic nanoparticles is a
powerful technique for chemical and biological sensing experiments. Moreover, the LSPR is …

The toxic Aβ oligomer and Alzheimer's disease: an emperor in need of clothes

I Benilova, E Karran, B De Strooper - Nature neuroscience, 2012 - nature.com
The'toxic Aβ oligomer'hypothesis has attracted considerable attention among Alzheimer's
disease researchers as a way of resolving the lack of correlation between deposited amyloid …

[HTML][HTML] Amyloid-β induces NLRP1-dependent neuronal pyroptosis in models of Alzheimer's disease

MS Tan, L Tan, T Jiang, XC Zhu, HF Wang, CD Jia… - Cell death & …, 2014 - nature.com
Increasing evidence has shown the aberrant expression of inflammasome-related proteins
in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain; these proteins, including NLRP1 inflammasome, are …

Aβ oligomers–a decade of discovery

DM Walsh, DJ Selkoe - Journal of neurochemistry, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Converging lines of evidence suggest that progressive accumulation of the amyloid β‐
protein (Aβ) plays a central role in the genesis of Alzheimer's disease, but it was long …

Amyloid oligomers: formation and toxicity of Aβ oligomers

M Sakono, T Zako - The FEBS journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age‐related, progressive degenerative disorder that is
characterized by synapse and neuron loss in the brain and the accumulation of protein …