fibril
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These cross-β fibril assemblies are also useful building blocks within designer biomaterials for medical applications, but their resemblance to their amyloid beta cousins, whose tangles are a symptom of neurodegenerative disease, is concerning.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2024
A new imaging technique developed by engineers at Washington University in St. Louis can give scientists a much closer look at fibril assemblies, stacks of peptides like amyloid beta, most notably associated with Alzheimer's disease.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2024
These findings highlight that fibril reorientation, straightening, stretching, and sliding are crucial mechanisms facilitating whole-disc compression.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 13, 2024
Each protein molecule contributes two windings of a helix to the length of the fibril so that the β-strands alternate between intermolecular and intramolecular hydrogen bonding along the axis of the fibre.
From Nature ● Nov. 8, 2016
The pileus is moist, not viscid, smooth or sprinkled with a whitish superficial fibril, flesh changing color when dry, and rather thin.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
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