Amyloid toxicity in Alzheimer's disease

AB Reiss, HA Arain, MM Stecker… - Reviews in the …, 2018 - degruyter.com
A major feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology is the plaque composed of
aggregated amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide. Although these plaques may have harmful properties …

Atomic force microscopy to study molecular mechanisms of amyloid fibril formation and toxicity in Alzheimer's disease

E Drolle, F Hane, B Lee, Z Leonenko - Drug metabolism reviews, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease characterized by
dementia and memory loss for which no cure or effective prevention is currently available …

Amyloid-β oligomers have a profound detergent-like effect on lipid membrane bilayers, imaged by atomic force and electron microscopy

DC Bode, M Freeley, J Nield, M Palma… - Journal of biological …, 2019 - ASBMB
The ability of amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) to disrupt membrane integrity and cellular homeostasis
is believed to be central to Alzheimer's disease pathology. Aβ is reported to have various …

Preparation of DOPC and DPPC supported planar lipid bilayers for atomic force microscopy and atomic force spectroscopy

SJ Attwood, Y Choi, Z Leonenko - International journal of molecular …, 2013 - mdpi.com
Cell membranes are typically very complex, consisting of a multitude of different lipids and
proteins. Supported lipid bilayers are widely used as model systems to study biological …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of melatonin and cholesterol on the structure of DOPC and DPPC membranes

E Drolle, N Kučerka, MI Hoopes, Y Choi… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2013 - Elsevier
The cell membrane plays an important role in the molecular mechanism of amyloid toxicity
associated with Alzheimer's disease. The membrane's chemical composition and the …

3D-visualization of amyloid-β oligomer interactions with lipid membranes by cryo-electron tomography

Y Tian, R Liang, A Kumar, P Szwedziak, JH Viles - Chemical science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Amyloid-β (Aβ) assemblies have been shown to bind to lipid bilayers. This can disrupt
membrane integrity and cause a loss of cellular homeostasis, that triggers a cascade of …

Atomic force microscopy and other scanning probe microscopy methods to study nanoscale domains in model lipid membranes

M Robinson, CT Filice, DM McRae… - Advances in Physics …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The cell membrane is a fundamental biological structure, which is only 6–10 nm thick. It is
composed of hundreds of lipid types, which form small and dynamic lipid domains or rafts …

Amyloid beta oligomers induce neuronal elasticity changes in age-dependent manner: a force spectroscopy study on living hippocampal neurons

AA Ungureanu, I Benilova, O Krylychkina, D Braeken… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Small soluble species of amyloid-beta (Aβ) formed during early peptide aggregation stages
are responsible for several neurotoxic mechanisms relevant to the pathology of Alzheimer's …

Membrane domain modulation of Aβ 1–42 oligomer interactions with supported lipid bilayers: an atomic force microscopy investigation

M Azouz, C Cullin, S Lecomte, M Lafleur - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Alzheimer's disease is a devastating pathology affecting an increasing number of individuals
following the general rise in life expectancy. Amyloid peptide Aβ1–42 has been identified as …

Quartz crystal microbalance and atomic force microscopy to characterize mimetic systems based on supported lipids bilayer

NF Bonet, DG Cava, M Vélez - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) with dissipation and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) are
two characterization techniques that allow describing processes taking place at solid-liquid …