How to Use amyloid beta in a Sentence

amyloid beta

noun
  • These drugs target the amyloid beta plaques caused by the amyloid protein.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The test measures blood levels of a protein called amyloid beta.
    — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Leqembi was approved on data from a mid-stage trial that showed the drug knocked out amyloid beta.
    — Laurie McGinley, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Jan. 2023
  • By targeting amyloid beta, the drug is expected to reduce these plaques and slow the progression of the disease.
    — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Durrant and her team found that when exposed to the toxic amyloid beta, the brain tissue simply didn't attempt to repair itself.
    — New Atlas, 1 May 2025
  • New medications can also reverse amyloid beta plaque build-up in the brain, a marker of Alzheimer’s disease.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 26 July 2023
  • As a person ages, amyloid beta tends to accumulate in the brain and can eventually form plaques, which are linked to Alzheimer’s disease.
    — WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Those failures largely centered on a sticky protein called amyloid beta, which forms plaques in the brains of many people with the disease and was hypothesized to be its root cause.
    — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Feb. 2023
  • For example, the researchers also found lower levels of amyloid beta in blood samples from healthy newborns than in older study participants.
    — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Although the precise causes of Alzheimer’s are still not fully understood, the disease is defined by specific brain changes, such as amyloid beta plaques.
    — Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 12 July 2024
  • Panel weighs risks of side effects The drug manufacturers cited studies that showed the drug cleared amyloid beta from the brains of study participants.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 9 June 2023
  • The team focused on Aβ42, a form of the amyloid beta with 42 amino acids that is commonly found in people with Alzheimer's disease.
    — Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
  • Past research suggests that hyperglycemia increases amyloid beta accumulation in the brain, which has been linked with Alzheimer’s.
    — Julia Ries Wexler, Health, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The drug, called donanemab, is the latest treatment to target amyloid beta, a protein that builds up in the brain and is a signature characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease.
    — Laurie McGinley, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
  • At the heart of more than 50 different neurodegenerative diseases is the molecule amyloid beta.
    — Ian Randall, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
  • Donanemab is an antibody that identifies and destroys amyloid beta proteins, excess abnormal proteins that bind together to create brain plaques.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 3 May 2023
  • This was a serious issue, because one of the cellular waste products it is supposed to remove is amyloid beta, found in the brains of patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
    — Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2025
  • The drug is a monoclonal antibody medication given by intravenous infusion that targets amyloid beta proteins in the brain.
    — Lauren J. Mapp, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
  • Loss of lithium accelerates the development of harmful clumps of the protein amyloid beta and tangles of the protein tau that resemble the structures found in people with Alzheimer’s.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Although Alzheimer’s is not a prion disease, some separate research suggests that the two proteins that are hallmarks in Alzheimer’s disease — amyloid beta and tau — behave like prions.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
  • This includes tau and amyloid beta, the neurotoxins associated with the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
    — Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Here's how to eat to live longer, new study says The study researchers found higher numbers of immune cells tightly surrounding amyloid beta plaques as well as other cells responsible for inflammation and cell and tissue death.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Researchers discovered higher levels of tau and amyloid beta — both hallmarks of Alzheimer’s in the brain — in people who took longer to enter REM sleep, when dreaming occurs.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Finally, the lymph nodes in the necks of the mice that received 40-hertz stimulation were chock full of amyloid beta compared to those of the control group, suggesting that the harmful protein had been successfully drained out of the brain.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • These findings are remarkable given the close association between pTau217 and the amyloid beta pathology of Alzheimer’s disease.
    — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Another diagnostic option involves measuring amyloid beta and certain modified forms of tau in the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord, but collecting this fluid requires a lumbar puncture, which many people find too invasive.
    — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2025
  • This study did not, however, find any associations between vitamin D levels in the brain and the presence of lewy bodies or amyloid beta build up that signal the development of lewy body dementia and Alzheimer’s respectively.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Abnormal buildup of the protein amyloid beta in the brain is associated with Alzheimer’s and the new study suggests that amyloid beta contamination may have a connection with the early dementia symptoms experienced by the patients in the study.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
  • As with aquaporin 4, blocking the expression of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide simultaneously blocked the clearance of amyloid beta; the effectiveness of the gamma stimulation fell apart.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Finally, amyloid beta deposits have also been measured in lacrimal fluid, also known as tears; research efforts are ongoing to determine whether the examination of tear fluid might be a useful test for Alzheimer’s disease, Singman explains.
    — Elizabeth Yuko, Flow Space, 27 May 2025

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