Amyloid Plaque Causes & Reasons

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Possible Causes

Alzheimer Disease

Abstract The brains of Alzheimer's disease sufferers are characterized by amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. [doi.org]

Zinc has actually been shown to reduce the toxic effect of the amyloid plaques by changing the amyloid proteins into a shape that is less harmful to the brain. [alzheimers.org.uk]

Immunisation of patients with Alzheimer's disease with full-length amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta(42)) can clear amyloid plaques from the brain. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Amyloidosis

Because of this close link, gradual accumulation of A β into amyloid plaques has been reported in brain areas with intense neuronal activity, including cortical regions that [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

As a result, further amyloid plaque should not deposit in the organs. [hopkinsmedicine.org]

We present a 71-year-old man that presented to our department because of exuberant purpuric plaques in the anogenital area as the first manifestation of an amyloid light-chain [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Secondary Amyloidosis

Seite 451 - Secreted amyloid beta-protein similar to that in the senile plaques of Alzheimer's disease is increased in vivo by the presenilin 1 and 2 and APP mutations linked [books.google.de]

Nodules/Plaques of amyloid can be seen in the epi/endocardium Micro: Seen in the coronary vessels or surrounding them. [ilovepathology.com]

In the United Kingdom, a nuclear medicine scan using radiolabeled SAP (serum amyloid P component) has been developed; it is not available elsewhere. [clinicaladvisor.com]

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Systemic Amyloidosis

Amyloid 13, 20–23 (2006). 60. Burns, M. P. et al. Co-localization of cholesterol, apolipoprotein E and fibrillar Aβ in amyloid plaques. Mol. Brain. [doi.org]

Amyloid 13, 20–23 (2006). [ PubMed ] [ Google Scholar ] Burns M. P. et al. Co-localization of cholesterol, apolipoprotein E and fibrillar Aβ in amyloid plaques. Mol. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Although the causative protein is the main constituent of amyloid plaques, the amyloid proteome is complex and a number of other proteins are frequently co-deposited. [haematologica.org]

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Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease

[…] in addition to disease duration, in generating white matter PrP-amyloid plaques in p-CJDMM1. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

KEYWORDS: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; MV2K C; cerebellum; single unglycosylated band; small amyloid plaques [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Microscopically visible kuru-type amyloid plaques were found in 5% of patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, 75% of those with kuru, and 100% of those with Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Amyloidosis in Familial Mediterranean Fever

Amyloid — A waxy translucent substance composed mostly of protein, that forms plaques (abnormal deposits) in the brain. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

Amyloidosis — Accumulation of amyloid deposits in various organs and tissues in the body such that normal functioning of an organ is compromised. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

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Hepatosplenic Amyloidosis

Amyloid deposits are diffuse and typically involve the posterior wall of the trachea. The lesions are fragile and may bleed after biopsy. [err.ersjournals.com]

Tracheobronchial endoscopy usually shows irregular whitish deposits, most often diffuse, narrowing the airway lumen more or less completely (multifocal submucosal plaques) [err.ersjournals.com]

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Kuru

Amyloid plaques, so characteristic of kuru, also did not figure in the similarity, for they had not yet been reported in scrapie. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Neuropathologically, kuru-affected brains were characterized by widespread degeneration of neurons, astroglial and microglial proliferation, and the presence of amyloid plaques [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

The clinical phenotype of such cases should be similar to that of homozygous cases, but may have less (or at least less readily identified) amyloid plaque formation. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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ABri Amyloidosis

(A) Illustration of tissues taken from a normal and AD brain, and (B) picture of an actual amyloid plaque as seen under a microscope. [case.edu]

plaques. [en.wikipedia.org]

The amyloid plaques are deposits of Aβ peptides organized in 7–10 nm thick fibrils. [nature.com]

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Early-Onset Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer Disease

It is caused by mutations in the PSEN2 gene which results in the production of a toxic protein (amyloid beta peptide) in the brain which collects into clumps (amyloid plaques [checkorphan.org]

plaque, a substance that builds up in the brain of Alzheimer’s patients years before they start getting sick. [cbsnews.com]

plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, Lewy bodies (seen in Lewy body variant) リンク ICD-11: 8A20 ICD-10: G30 MeSH: D000544 OMIM: 104300 104310 607822 606889 文献 PMID: 19679070 [genome.jp]

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ADan Amyloidosis

With these antibodies we were able to identify abundant extracellular amyloid plaques, vascular, and parenchymal deposits in human familial British dementia and FDD brain [discovery.ucl.ac.uk]

The amyloid plaques are deposits of Aβ peptides organized in 7–10 nm thick fibrils. [nature.com]

• In vivo detection of amyloid plaques & neurofibrilary tangles in the brain enables early identification of AD. • Molecular PET imaging using beta-sheet binding agents [de.slideshare.net]

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Boxer's Dementia

This collect damage may lead to the build of amyloid plaque, which causes symptoms of the disease. However, this relationship is not entirely clear. [healthlifemedia.com]

This collective damage is thought to lead to the buildup of amyloid plaque, which causes the symptoms of the disease (though the exact relationship is not yet entirely clear [dementia.org]

Unlike Alzheimer’s dementia, these tangles typically appear around small blood vessels, and beta-amyloid plaques are only present in certain circumstances. [alz.org]

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Posterior Cortical Atrophy

Posterior cortical atrophy is a dementia syndrome with symptoms of cortical visual dysfunction, associated with amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles predominantly affecting [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Determining the relative contribution of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles to brain dysfunction in Alzheimer disease is critical for therapeutic approaches, but [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

amyloid plaques, Pick bodies, etc) typically underlie corresponding clinical syndromes. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Familial Alzheimer-Like Prion Disease

Louis report that brain regions harmed by an inherited form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) also have amyloid plaques identical to those found in the same brain areas in [source.wustl.edu]

Alzheimer’s is identified by the presence of two proteins in the brain, known as amyloid and tau. Amyloid proteins aggregate into sticky clumps called “plaques”. [theconversation.com]

Moreover, mice and marmosets develop amyloid plaques when injected with brain fluid containing amyloid-beta proteins. [pbs.org]

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Parenchymatous Cortical Cerebellar Degeneration

Diffuse amyloid plaques were specifically noted in the cerebellar molecular layer. [alzforum.org]

Familial cerebral amyloid angiopathy with nonneuritic amyloid plaque formation. Brain. 1990 ; 113 : 721 –47. 27. J. L. Holton, J. Ghiso, T. Lashley, et al. [cambridge.org]

Abundant amyloid plaques were noted throughout the brain, including in all neocortical areas, the hippocampus, basal ganglia, thalamus, and midbrain. [alzforum.org]

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Dementia

Neuropathological evaluation revealed abundant β-amyloid neuritic and cored plaques, diffuse β-amyloid plaques, and frequent hyperphosphorylated-tau neurofibrillary tangles [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

There is a growing body of evidence that both local and systemic inflammation are important in dementia; with cerebral inflammation occurring secondarily to beta-amyloid plaques [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Alzheimer’s disease, by contrast, is characterized by the build-up of amyloid plaques and so-called tau tangles, which are normal proteins run amok. [marketwatch.com]

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Prion Disease

Neuropathological examination during end-stage disease showed the deposition of prion protein in the form of frequent cortical amyloid plaques, cerebral amyloid angiopathy [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Neuropathologically, multiple PrP-positive amyloid plaques and diffuse PrP deposition in the deep cortical layers were found in the cerebral cortex with primarily frontal [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Prion aggregates make amyloid plaques in neocortex, cerebellum and subcortical nuclei. Neurodegeneration provokes a spongiosis, gliosis and neuronal loss. [alzheimer-europe.org]

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Cerebral Cortical Atrophy

plaques that are characteristic of the disease. [massgeneral.org]

In many people with posterior cortical atrophy, the affected part of the brain shows amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, similar to the changes that occur in Alzheimer [alz.org]

plaques and tau tangles that are directly associated with Alzheimer’s. [massgeneral.org]

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Subacute Myelo-Optico-Neuropathy

Metal chelator decreases Alzheimer beta-amyloid plaques. Neuron 2001; 30: 641–642. 20 Kaur D, Yantiri F, Rajagopalan S, Kumar J, Mo JQ, Boonplueang R et al. [nature.com]

Metal chelator decreases Alzheimer beta-amyloid plaques. Neuron 2001; 30 : 641–642. 20. Kaur D, Yantiri F, Rajagopalan S, Kumar J, Mo JQ, Boonplueang R et al. [nature.com]

According to scientists at Prana, increasing bioactive metal levels in the aging brain accelerate formation of amyloid plaques as well as neurotoxic oxidative processes. [alzforum.org]

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Vitamin B12 Deficiency

In the process beta-amyloid forms into the long chain of insoluble plaque so characteristic of Alzheimer's. Dr. [yourhealthbase.com]

Clioquinol treatment slowed down the disease and significantly reduced the accumulation of beta-amyloid plaques, a cardinal feature of Alzheimer's. Dr. [yourhealthbase.com]

Two years ago researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital reported that the antibiotic clioquinol inhibited and even reduced the build-up of amyloid plaques in the brain [yourhealthbase.com]

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Vascular Dementia

Thus far, for example, shrinkage of the hippocampus area of the brain, the significance of amyloid plaque in the brain, and reduced activity in certain areas of the brain [emaxhealth.com]

Since amyloid plaques are a characteristic feature of Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia may occur as a consequence. [en.wikipedia.org]

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is a buildup of amyloid plaques in the walls of blood vessels in the brain. [nia.nih.gov]

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Anemia

Interactions between amyloid-beta and hemoglobin: implications for amyloid plaque formation in Alzheimer's disease. [nature.com]

Peripheral clearance of amyloid beta peptide by complement C3-dependent adherence to erythrocytes. [nature.com]

plaque and congophilic angiopathy of AD.33 Aβ is enriched in red cell membranes in AD compared to healthy controls,34,35 and oxidizes red cell hemoglobin,36 potentially contributing [nature.com]

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Purpura

Amyloidosis, which causes amyloid plaques to build up in the body. Blood vessel deterioration associated with age. A lack of vitamin C, also known as scurvy. [medicalnewstoday.com]

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Gingivitis

[…] of AD-like plaques, and results in alveolar bone loss compared to control hAPP-J20 mice ( 15 ). [doi.org]

In transgenic mice overexpressing mutated human amyloid precursor protein (hAPP-J20), oral infection with P. gingivalis impairs cognitive function, increases the deposition [doi.org]

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Periodontitis

Although there have been hundreds of drug trials in the last 15 years, none have been shown to prevent the stickly amyloid plaques and misfolded proteins which stop brain [telegraph.co.uk]

Correlative memory deficits, Aβ elevation, and amyloid plaques in transgenic mice. [doi.org]

The senile plaques are primarily composed of β-amyloid (Aβ) peptide, which is a 39–43 amino acidic peptide formed upon proteolytic processing, by β- and γ-secretases (Haass [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Binswanger Disease

Cerebral vascular amyloid deposits, senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles have been found in subcortical arteriosclerotic encephalopathy (Binswanger disease). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

CONCLUSION The diagnosis of AD is made radiologically by observing changes in the hippocampus and deposition of amyloid plaque. [surgicalneurologyint.com]

Unlike AD, FTD usually does not include formation of amyloid plaques. [alzheimersweekly.com]

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Traumatic Brain Injury

[…] be linked to the formation of amyloid plaques. [medicaldaily.com]

plaques and severe cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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Acne Vulgaris

A dose-dependent statistically significant reduction in amyloid plaque as measured by amyloid positron emission tomography was seen at all doses, with at the highest doses [doi.org]

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Radiculomyelopathy

Amyloidosis, which causes amyloid plaques to build up in the body. Blood vessel deterioration associated with age. A lack of vitamin C, also known as scurvy. [medicalnewstoday.com]

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Drug-induced Dementia

The guide states that “Alzheimer’s is distinguished from other dementias at autopsy by the presence of sticky beta-amyloid plaques outside brain cells (neurons) and fibrillary [thepeoplesvoice.org]

The guide states that: “Alzheimer’s is distinguished from other dementias at autopsy by the presence of sticky beta-amyloid plaques outside brain cells (neurons) and fibrillary [ppjg.me]

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