The core Alzheimer's peptide NAC forms amyloid fibrils which seed and are seeded by β-amyloid: is NAC a common trigger or target in neurodegenerative disease?

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Seeds 85%
• Amyloid 79%
• Neurodegenerative Diseases 73%
• Peptides 53%
• Amyloidogenic Proteins 48%
• Synucleins 36%
• Prion Proteins 29%
• Alzheimer Disease 18%
• Scrapie 16%
• Prions 14%
• Sequence Homology 13%
• Amyloid Plaques 13%
• Polymerization 12%
• Synapses 11%
• Amino Acids 8%
• In Vitro Techniques 5%
• Proteins 4%

Chemical Compounds

• Amyloid Fibril 100%
• Peptide 48%
• Protein 34%
• Disorder 12%
• Polymerization Reaction 8%