Amyloidosis - Mechanisms and Prospects for Therapy

preface_Amyloidosis......Page 1
01_Current and New Perspectives on the Molecular
and Cellular Mechanisms of Amyloid Formation
and Toxicity in Light Chain Amyloidosis......Page 11
02_Amyloid A Amyloidosis Secondary to
Rheumatoid Arthritis......Page 33
03_Diagnosis and Treatment of AA Amyloidosis
with Rheumatoid Arthritis: State of the Art......Page 53
04_Apolipoprotein A-I Associated Amyloidoses:
The Intriguing Case of a Natively Unfolded
Protein Fragment......Page 73
05_Interaction and Aggregation of Amyloid B
 Peptide with Multivalent Sulfonated Sugar......Page 95
06_Laboratory Methods for the Diagnosis of
Hereditary Amyloidoses......Page 111
07_Electron Microscopy in the Diagnosis
of Amyloidosis......Page 131
08_Amyloidosis in Domestic Animals:
Pathology, Pathogenesis, Gross and
Microscopic Lesions and Clinical Findings......Page 159
09_Mouse Models to Study Systemic Amyloidoses:
Is Prion-Like Transmission a Common
Pathogenic Mechanism?......Page 173
10_Transthyretin Amyloidosis in Aged Vervet
Monkeys, as a Candidate for the Spontaneous
Animal Model of Senile Systemic Amyloidosis......Page 191
11_Amyloidosis Associated to Leishmania Infection
in Murine Model......Page 201
12_Modeling Amyloid Diseases in Fruit Fly
Drosophila Melanogaster......Page 209