Amyloid Diseases
Title:
Amyloid Diseases
Author:
Dmitry Kurouski
ISBN:
intechopen.73821
9781838811327
9781789853810
9781789853827
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
IntechOpen 2019
Physical Description:
1 electronic resource (242 p.)
Abstract:
Neurodegenerative diseases are severe, rapidly developing, and currently incurable conditions that result in progressive degeneration and the death of neurons. This causes dementia, movement problems, and essentially loss of personal identity. Amyloids attempts to answer the following questions: (1) why do we develop these severe neurodegenerative diseases? (2) what histological and physiological changes are observed upon development and progression of these diseases? and (3) how can we treat amyloid-associated diseases?