Binding Sites for Amyloid-β Oligomers and Synaptic Toxicity
Smith LM, Strittmatter SM. Binding Sites for Amyloid-β Oligomers and Synaptic Toxicity. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives In Medicine 2016, 7: a024075. PMID: 27940601, PMCID: PMC5411685, DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a024075.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAlzheimer's diseaseAβ oligomersSoluble Aβ oligomersFibrillary amyloidNeuronal impairmentSynaptic dysfunctionAD pathogenesisSynaptic toxicityAmyloid-β OligomersCellular prion proteinNeuronal cascadesFurther studiesCell surface proteinsDiseaseAβPrion proteinOligomer toxicityToxicityDysfunctionMolecular basisPathogenesisDementiaProteinPlaquesImpairment