Understanding amyloid aggregation by statistical analysis of atomic force microscopy images

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 423-428

  Adamcik, Jozef ^a   Jung, Jin Mi ^b   Flakowski, Jérôme ^a   De Los Rios, Paolo ^a   Dietler, Giovanni ^a   Mezzenga, Raffaele ^c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ATOMIC PHYSICS; FOOD PROCESSING; GLYCOPROTEINS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; STATISTICAL PHYSICS;

BETA-LACTOGLOBULIN; BLOOD COAGULATION; CATARACT FORMATION; FIBRILLAR SYSTEMS; NEURODEGENERATIVE; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; STATISTICAL POLYMERS; THEORETICAL ARGUMENTS;

PROTEINS;

AMYLOID; BETA LACTOGLOBULIN; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DENATURATION; FIBER; HEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 77955230701     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2010.59     Document Type: Article

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