Alzheimer's β-amyloid vasoactivity: Identification of a novel β-amyloid conformational intermediate

FEBS Letters

Volumn 436, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 445-448

  Crawford, Fiona ^a   Soto, Claudio ^b   Suo, Zhiming ^a   Fang, Chunhong ^a   Parker, Timothy ^a   Sawar, Asad ^a   Frangione, Blas ^b   Mullan, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Sheet; Alzheimer's disease; Conformation; Vasoactivity

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VASCULAR RING; VASOCONSTRICTION;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANIMALS; AORTA; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ENDOTHELIN-1; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 0031728139     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(98)01170-3     Document Type: Article

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