Inconvenient facts about pathological amyloid fibrils

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 49, 2009, Pages 20555-20556

  Caspar, Donald L D ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANIMALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; PRIONS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 73949137636     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910978107     Document Type: Note

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