Journal article
Dynamics of plaque formation in Alzheimer's disease
Biophysical journal, v 76(3), pp 1330-1334
Mar 1999
PMID: 10049316
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Abstract
Plaques that form in the brains of Alzheimer patients are made of deposits of the amyloid-beta peptide. We analyze the time evolution of amyloid-beta deposition in immunostained brain slices from transgenic mice. We find that amyloid-beta deposits appear in clusters whose characteristic size increases from 14 microm in 8-month-old mice to 22 microm in 12-month-old mice. We show that the clustering has implications for the biological growth of amyloid-beta by presenting a growth model that accounts for the experimentally observed structure of individual deposits and predicts the formation of clusters of deposits and their time evolution.
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- Title
- Dynamics of plaque formation in Alzheimer's disease
- Creators
- B Urbanc - Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 USAL CruzS V BuldyrevS HavlinM C IrizarryH E StanleyB T Hyman
- Publication Details
- Biophysical journal, v 76(3), pp 1330-1334
- Publisher
- Elsevier; United States
- Grant note
- AG08487 / NIA NIH HHS
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Physics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000078972300016
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0033051263
- Other Identifier
- 991014878290004721
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- Biophysics