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Amyloid and Prions Flashcards

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What may increased mortality due to degenerative disease be partly due to?

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Lecture 6, slide 3-5

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What are the features of amyloid formation? What are the causes of amyloid disease and the associated pathological changes?

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Lecture 6, slide 6

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What is amyloid?

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Lecture 6, slide 7

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What are some peripheral amyloid disorders? What protein are in their amyloids? What are their causes and pathology?

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Lecture 6, slide 8

  • senile systemic
  • type 2 diabetes
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What is senile systemic amyloidosis?

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Lecture 6, slide 9

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What is the amyloid histology of type II diabetes?

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Lecture 6, slide 11

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What are some amyloid diseases of the CNS? What proteins are in their amyloids? What is their cause?

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Lecture 6, slide 12

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What are prion diseases? Give some examples.

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Lecture 6, slide 13

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What are some features of prion diseases?

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Lecture 6, slide 14

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What are some signs and symptoms of CJD?

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Lecture 6, slide 15

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What is a prion? What are the features of prions?

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Lecture 6, slide 16

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What is the difference between the structure of PrPc and PrPSc?

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Lecture 6, slide 17

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What does progressive prion disease require?

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How is CJD diagnosed?

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What is Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)? What is its pathology?

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How can AD histology be imaged?

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What is the histopathology of AD?

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How and why does amyloid form?

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What is the structure of AD amyloid? How is it formed?

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How is amyloid involved in the pathophysiology of AD? What is size exclusion chromatography? What has this technique (and SEM) revealed about the amyloidogenic peptide?

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How is chronic inflammation involved in AD pathology?How has this been shown?

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What are the general approaches to treatment of amyloid disorders? What are the specific treatment approaches for AD treatment?

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Lecture 6, slide 36-38

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Give examples of new drug treatments for AD that have been abandoned. Why was research into them abandoned?

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Lecture 6, slide 39

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