amyloid beta (English, noun)
expansion: amyloid beta (uncountable)
Senses:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The class of peptides of 36–43 amino acids that are crucially involved in Alzheimer's disease as the main component of the amyloid plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer patients.
tags: uncountable
Forms:
form: amyloid-beta
tags: alternative
form: amiloid-beta
tags: alternative