New clothes for amyloid enhancing factor (AEF): Silk as AEF

Amyloid

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 98-106

  Kisilevsky, Robert ^a   Lemieux, Laura ^a   Boudreau, Lee ^a   Dun Sheng, Yang ^b   Fraser, Paul ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

AA amyloid; AEF; Amyloid enhancing factor; Prions; Silk

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; CONGO RED; LITHIUM; PREALBUMIN; PRION PROTEIN; SILVER NITRATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SILK; SPLEEN;

EID: 0032804524     PISSN: 13506129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13506129909007309     Document Type: Article

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