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B Urbanc1, L Cruz, S V Buldyrev, S Havlin, M C Irizarry, H E Stanley, B T Hyman.
Abstract
Plaques that form in the brains of Alzheimer patients are made of deposits of the amyloid-beta peptide. We analyze the time evolution of amyloid-beta deposition in immunostained brain slices from transgenic mice. We find that amyloid-beta deposits appear in clusters whose characteristic size increases from 14 microm in 8-month-old mice to 22 microm in 12-month-old mice. We show that the clustering has implications for the biological growth of amyloid-beta by presenting a growth model that accounts for the experimentally observed structure of individual deposits and predicts the formation of clusters of deposits and their time evolution.Entities:
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Year: 1999 PMID: 10049316 PMCID: PMC1300112 DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77295-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biophys J ISSN: 0006-3495 Impact factor: 4.033