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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a chronic neurodegenerative condition responsible for most cases of dementia and considered as one of the greatest challenges for neuroscience in this century. Early Ad signs are usually mistaken for normal…

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We derive structural and binding energy trends for twenty amino acids, their dipeptides, and their interactions with the divalent cations Ca$^{2+}$, Ba$^{2+}$, Sr$^{2+}$, Cd$^{2+}$, Pb$^{2+}$, and Hg$^{2+}$. The underlying data set consists…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-15 Matti Ropo , Volker Blum , Carsten Baldauf

Zinc-fingers, which widely exist in eukaryotic cell and play crucial roles in life processes, depend on the binding of zinc ion for their proper folding. To computationally study the zinc coupled folding of the zinc-fingers, charge transfer…

Biological Physics · Physics 2008-06-17 Wenfei Li , Jian Zhang , Jun Wang , Wei Wang

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis heavily relies on amyloid-beta positron emission tomography (Abeta-PET), which is limited by high cost and limited accessibility. This study explores whether Abeta-PET spatial patterns can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhengjie Zhang , Xiaoxie Mao , Qihao Guo , Shaoting Zhang , Qi Huang , Mu Zhou , Fang Xie , Mianxin Liu

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by dementia and memory loss in the elderly population. The amyloid-$\beta$ peptide (A$\beta$ 1-42) is one of the main pathogenic factors in AD and is known to cause…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 Yue Xu , Carina Teresa Filice , Zoya Leonenko

Alzheimer s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive decline, where early detection is essential for timely intervention and improved patient outcomes. Traditional diagnostic methods are…

Motivation: Alzheimer's Disease hallmarks include amyloid-beta deposits and brain atrophy, detectable via PET and MRI scans, respectively. PET is expensive, invasive and exposes patients to ionizing radiation. MRI is cheaper, non-invasive,…

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Mathematical modeling offers a valuable approach to understanding Alzheimers disease (AD) given its complexity, unknown causes, and lack of effective treatments. Models, once validated, offer a powerful tool to test medical hypotheses that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-20 G. Landi , A. Scaravelli , M. C. Tesi , C. Testa

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that severely impairs survival and quality of life. While anti-amyloid beta (Abeta) therapies can slow disease progression, their efficacy depends on personalized dosing…

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Mutations and oxidative modification in the protein Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) have been implicated in the death of motor neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a presently incurable, invariably fatal neurodegenerative…

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Single-molecule pulling experiments on unstructured proteins linked to neurodegenerative diseases have measured rupture forces comparable to those for stable folded proteins. To investigate the structural mechanisms of this unexpected force…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-06-19 S. Æ. Jónsson , S. Mitternacht , A. Irbäck

Recent Alzheimer's disease (AD) patient studies have focused on retinal analysis, as the retina is the only part of the central nervous system which can be imaged non-invasively by optical methods. However as this is a relatively new…

Imaging-based early diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease (AD) has become an effective approach, especially by using nuclear medicine imaging techniques such as Positron Emission Topography (PET). In various literature it has been found that PET…

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Studies of how protein fold have shown that the way protein clumps form in the test tube is similar to how proteins form the so-called ``amyloid'' deposits that are the pathological signal of a variety of diseases, among them the memory…

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Alzheimer's disease is the most common dementia worldwide. Its pathological development is well known to be connected with the accumulation of two toxic proteins: tau protein and amyloid-$\beta$. Mathematical models and numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Mattia Corti

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a prevalent, progressive, and ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disorder that is defined pathologically by the accumulation of amyloid plaques and tau neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. There remains an unmet…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-21 Leonardino A. Digma MD , Joseph R. Winer PhD , Michael D. Greicius MD

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease known to affect brain functional connectivity (FC). Linear FC measures have been applied to study the differences in AD by splitting neurophysiological signals such as…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-14 Dominik Klepl , Fei He , Min Wu , Daniel J. Blackburn , Ptolemaios G. Sarrigiannis

The presence of oligomeric aggregates, which is often observed during the process of amyloid formation, has recently attracted much attention since it has been associated with neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-01-14 Stefan Auer , Filip Meersman , Christopher M. Dobson , Michele Vendruscolo

Pathological folding and oligomer formation of the amyloid beta-protein (Abeta) are widely perceived as central to Alzheimer's disease (AD). Experimental approaches to study Abeta self-assembly are problematic, because most relevant…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Sijung Yun , Brigita Urbanc , Luis Cruz , Gal Bitan , David B. Teplow , H. Eugene Stanley

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder; it is the most common form of de-mentia and the fifth leading cause of death globally. Aggregation and deposition of neurotoxic A-beta fibrils in the neural tissues of the brain is a…

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