Parkinson’s disease is a type of amyloidosis featuring accumulation of amyloid fibrils of α-synuclein

Amyloid structure exhibits polymorphism on multiple length scales in human brain tissue

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Neurodegenerative Diseases: Expanding the Prion Concept

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Evidence for α-synuclein prions causing multiple system atrophy in humans with parkinsonism

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Synchrotron FTIR micro-spectroscopy for structural analysis of Lewy bodies in the brain of Parkinson’s disease patients

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Nomenclature 2014: Amyloid fibril proteins and clinical classification of the amyloidosis

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Multiple organ involvement by alpha-synuclein pathology in Lewy body disorders

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Synchrotron FTIR reveals lipid around and within amyloid plaques in transgenic mice and Alzheimer's disease brain

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Lewy body extracts from Parkinson disease brains trigger α-synuclein pathology and neurodegeneration in mice and monkeys

(2013) Ariadna Recasens et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

Prion-like spreading of pathological α-synuclein in brain

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Molecular Structure of β-Amyloid Fibrils in Alzheimer’s Disease Brain Tissue

(2013) Jun-Xia Lu et al.   CELL

Characterization of the APP/PS1 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease in senescence accelerated background

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Pathological  -Synuclein Transmission Initiates Parkinson-like Neurodegeneration in Nontransgenic Mice

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Synchrotron X-Ray Microdiffraction Reveals Intrinsic Structural Features of Amyloid Deposits In Situ

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Diabetes-accelerated memory dysfunction via cerebrovascular inflammation and A  deposition in an Alzheimer mouse model with diabetes

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Biology of Amyloid: Structure, Function, and Regulation

(2010) Jason Greenwald et al.   STRUCTURE

Structural characterization of the human cerebral myelin sheath by small angle x-ray scattering

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FTIR reveals structural differences between native β-sheet proteins and amyloid fibrils

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