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ArticleScientific reports2016

Ultra rapid in vivo screening for anti-Alzheimer anti-amyloid drugs.

Alba Espargaró, Aina Medina, Ornella Di Pietro, Diego Muñoz-Torrero, Raimon Sabate

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 43 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alba EspargaróDepartment of Physical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, and Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IN2UB), University of Barcelona, Spain.
Aina MedinaDepartment of Physical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, and Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IN2UB), University of Barcelona, Spain.
Ornella Di PietroLaboratory of Pharmaceutical Chemistry (CSIC Associated Unit), School of Pharmacy, and Institute of Biomedicine (IBUB), University of Barcelona, Spain.
Diego Muñoz-TorreroLaboratory of Pharmaceutical Chemistry (CSIC Associated Unit), School of Pharmacy, and Institute of Biomedicine (IBUB), University of Barcelona, Spain.
Raimon SabateDepartment of Physical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, and Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IN2UB), University of Barcelona, Spain.
Universitat de Barcelona · ESInstitut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia de la Universitat de Barcelona

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

More than 46 million people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer's disease. A large number of potential treatments have been proposed; among these, the inhibition of the aggregation of amyloid β-peptide (Aβ), considered one of the main culprits in Alzheimer's disease. Limitations in monitoring the aggregation of Aβ in cells and tissues restrict the screening of anti-amyloid drugs to in vitro studies in most cases. We have developed a simple but powerful method to track Aβ aggregation in vivo in real-time, using bacteria as in vivo amyloid reservoir. We use the specific amyloid dye Thioflavin-S (Th-S) to stain bacterial inclusion bodies (IBs), in this case mainly formed of Aβ in amyloid conformation. Th-S binding to amyloids leads to an increment of fluorescence that can be monitored. The quantification of the Th-S fluorescence along the time allows tracking Aβ aggregation and the effect of potential anti-aggregating agents.

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Alzheimer DiseaseAmino Acid SequenceAmyloid beta-PeptidesDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalFluorescenceHumansAmyloid beta-Peptides

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PMID27000658
PMCPMC4802339
OpenAlexW2302829883

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