A new method to measure cellular toxicity of non-fibrillar and fibrillar Alzheimer's Aβ using yeast

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 147-150

  Bharadwaj, Prashant ^a,b   Waddington, Lynne ^a   Varghese, Jose ^a   Macreadie, Ian G ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; WATER; AMYLOID; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL VIABILITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; YEAST; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CELL CULTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOLUBILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 44849144494     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-2008-13204     Document Type: Article

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