A kinetic study of amyloid formation: Fibril growth and length distributions

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 117, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 6574-6583

  Schreck, John S ^a   Yuan, Jian Min ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CHEMICAL REACTIONS; KINETIC THEORY; KINETICS; PROTEINS;

AMYLOID FORMATION; AMYLOID PROTEINS; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FRAGMENTATION REACTIONS; LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; SELF AGGREGATION;

AGGREGATES;

EID: 84878376696     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp401586p     Document Type: Article

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