Proteopathic Seeds and Neurodegenerative Diseases

The misfolding and aggregation of specific proteins is an early and obligatory event in many of the age-related neurodegenerative diseases of humans, and appears to occur many years before the onset of clinical symptoms. The initial cause of this pathogenic cascade and the means whereby disease spre...

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Other Authors: Jucker, Mathias (Editor), Christen, Yves (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2013, 2013
Edition:1st ed. 2013
Series:Research and Perspectives in Alzheimer's Disease
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Widening Spectrum of Prions Causing Neurodegenerative Diseases (Stanley B. Prusiner).- b-Amyloid Fibril Structures, In Vitro and In Vivo (Robert Tycko).- Structure-Activity Relationship of Amyloids (Jason Greenwald and Roland Riek).- Seeding and Cross-seeding in Amyloid Diseases (Per Westermark and Gunilla T. Westermark).- The Prion-like Aspect of Alzheimer Pathology (Sarah K. Fritschi, Bahareh Eftekharzadeh, Giusi Manfredi, Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi, Götz Heilbronner, Amudha Nagarathinam, Franziska Langer, Yvonne S. Eisele, Lary Walker, Mathias Jucker).- Amyloid-β Transmissibility (Duran-Aniotz C, Morales R, Moreno-Gonzalez I, Soto C).- Prion-like Properties of Assembled Tau Protein (Florence Clavaguera, Markus Tolnay, and Michel Goedert).- Accumulating Evidence Suggests that Parkinson´s Disease is a Prion-like Disorder
  • Nolwen L. Rey, Elodie Angot, Christopher Dunning, Jennifer A. Steiner, Patrik Brundin).- Propagation and Replication of Misfolded SOD1: Implications for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Anne Bertolotti)
  • Development of Drugs that Target Proteopathic Seeds Will Require Measurement of Drug Mechanism in Human Brain (Peter T. Lansbury).- The Role of Functional Prions in the Persistence of Memory Storage (Eric R. Kandel, Irina Derkatch, Elias Pavlopoulos)
  • Subject Index