ReviewThe Journal of physiology2006
Physiological roles for amyloid beta peptides.
Review in The Journal of physiology, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 120 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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120 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 284 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Role of c-Abl in Alzheimer's Disease: Guilty or not Guilty?Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2025Pooled it
- Parallel electrophysiological abnormalities due to COVID-19 infection and to Alzheimer's disease and related dementia.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Pooled it
- K16F/E22F Mutation Promotes Oligomerization and Alters β-Sheet Topology of Aβ16-22 Peptides: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations.ACS chemical neuroscience · 2026Article
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- The mRNA Expression Levels of General Transcription Factors Altered in Alzheimer Cases Possibly Due to Amyloid Beta 1-42 Exposure.Noro psikiyatri arsivi · 2026Article
- The Rab3 family proteins in age-related neurodegeneration: unraveling molecular pathways and potential therapeutic targets.npj aging · 2025Review
- Tianqi pingchan granule promotes recovery of glymphatic system function in a rat model of l-DOPA-induced dyskinesia.Journal of traditional and complementary medicine · 2025Article
- Investigating Gamma Frequency Band PSD in Alzheimer's Disease Using qEEG from Eyes-Open and Eyes-Closed Resting States.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Bone-brain interaction: mechanisms and potential intervention strategies of biomaterials.Bone research · 2025Review
- Critical Review of Neurobiological Evidence for Relationships Between Social Isolation, Loneliness and the Risk of Developing of Alzheimer's Disease: A New Model.Journal of aging research · 2025Review
- Promising Strategies to Reduce the SARS-CoV-2 Amyloid Deposition in the Brain and Prevent COVID-19-Exacerbated Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Alzheimer's Disease: A Review of Pathology, Current Treatments, and the Potential Therapeutic Effect of Decreasing Oxidative Stress by Combined Vitamin D and l-Cysteine Supplementation.Antioxidants & redox signaling · 2024Review
- Contribution of Scalp Regions to Machine Learning-Based Classification of Dementia Utilizing Resting-State qEEG Signals.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2024Article
- Re-Arranging the Puzzle between the Amyloid-Beta and Tau Pathology: An APP-Centric Approach.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- Novel Vaccine against Pathological Pyroglutamate-Modified Amyloid Beta for Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
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- The Relationships Among Metal Homeostasis, Mitochondria, and Locus Coeruleus in Psychiatric and Neurodegenerative Disorders: Potential Pathogenetic Mechanism and Therapeutic Implications.Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2023Review
- Alzheimer's disease-like neuropathology in three species of oceanic dolphin.The European journal of neuroscience · 2023Article
- Cross interactions between Apolipoprotein E and amyloid proteins in neurodegenerative diseases.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2023Review
- SARS-CoV-2 amyloid, is COVID-19-exacerbated dementia an amyloid disorder in the making?Frontiers in dementia · 2023Article
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Abstract
Alzheimer's disease is recognized post mortem by the presence of extracellular senile plaques, made primarily of aggregation of amyloid beta peptide (Abeta). This peptide has consequently been regarded as the principal toxic factor in the neurodegeneration of Alzheimer's disease. As such, intense research effort has been directed at determining its source, activity and fate, primarily with a view to preventing its formation or its biological activity, or promoting its degradation. Clearly, much progress has been made concerning its formation by proteolytic processing of the amyloid precursor protein, and its degradation by enzymes such as neprilysin and insulin degrading enzyme. The activities of Abeta, however, are numerous and yet to be fully elucidated. What is currently emerging from such studies is a diffuse but steadily growing body of data that suggests Abeta has important physiological functions and, further, that it should only be regarded as toxic when its production and degradation are imbalanced. Here, we review these data and suggest that physiological levels of Abeta have important physiological roles, and may even be crucial for neuronal cell survival. Thus, the view of Abeta being a purely toxic peptide requires re-evaluation.
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