How to Use amyloid in a Sentence

amyloid

noun

• Does someone at 55 with amyloid in the brain have Alzheimer’s?
  — Shirley Wang, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2017
• Plaques are clusters of beta-amyloid proteins that build up among nerve cells.
  — Jonel Aleccia, Kaiser Health News, 11 Sep. 2017
• Plaques are clusters of proteins called beta-amyloid that build up among nerve cells.
  — Jonel Aleccia, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2017
• Mice who took the drug daily showed less buildup of problematic amyloid plaque and fewer memory deficits.
  — Sammy Caiola, sacbee.com, 22 May 2017
• Researchers now know that amyloid starts to accumulate in the brain at least a decade or two before the onset of cognitive problems.
  — Elie Dolgin, Newsweek, 16 Feb. 2017
• There can also be a reduction of amyloid plaques, which are associated with Alzheimer’s disease.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
• This includes persons with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia and confirmed amyloid plaques.
  — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
• But cognitively healthy seniors can harbor amyloid, too, and Medicare won’t pay for the new scans outside of a few research studies.
  — Washington Post, 19 July 2017
• The rare genetic disease is a life-threatening nerve disorder that results in deposits of abnormal protein called amyloid.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 May 2017
• That has changed with the development of imaging technology to non-invasively detect amyloid and tau in the brains of living people.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 June 2017
• Now researchers have found these five risk factors correlate with the development, years later, of amyloid brain plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease.
  — Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2017
• But the new research looked beyond amyloid and tau levels, for other biological markers of Alzheimer’s disease in seemingly healthy adults.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 6 July 2017
• A few studies in cognitively normal people and one in mice have shown a connection between chronic sleep disruption and the development of amyloid plaques.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 5 July 2017
• But although amyloid accumulation appears to damage brain cells, these fibrils may be critical for reproduction.
  — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 11 July 2017
• The cause of Alzheimer’s isn’t known, but amyloid is a feature of the disease.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• This has led to a debate as to whether amyloid is even a cause of Alzheimer’s.
  — Denise C. Park, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 June 2018
• One of the key biomarkers is the amyloid protein, found in plaques.
  — The Conversation, oregonlive.com, 10 Aug. 2019
• If the PET scan was negative, the blood test ruled out amyloid buildup 77% of the time.
  — CBS News, 1 Dec. 2020
• The drug is also unique among the amyloid busters that came before.
  — Alice Park, Time, 15 Feb. 2018
• The drug targets amyloid, a protein that clumps in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.
  — Andrew Williams, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2022
• The first is plaques made up of one form of amyloid called beta-amyloid.
  — Jason Ulrich, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2021
• If the PET scan was negative, the blood test ruled out amyloid buildup 77 percent of the time.
  — NBC News, 30 Nov. 2020
• Some look for signs of amyloid; others, tau; still others, the ratio of the two.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2021
• The treatment clears a substance known as amyloid beta from the brain.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 29 June 2021
• That could mean a blood test to indicate the presence of amyloid.
  — Paula Span, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
• Both drugs remove amyloid from the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 30 July 2024
• The drug works by helping the body remove amyloid plaque buildups in the brain that are a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 11 June 2024
• The drug slowed declines in both cognitive and day-to-day functions, and reduced the amount of amyloid in the brain.
  — Jason Karlawish, STAT, 6 Oct. 2022
• The scans only turned up beta amyloid in the brain years later.
  — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• Both therapies clear the brain of the protein beta amyloid, which is widely thought to fuel the disease’s symptoms.
  — Byjennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 29 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024