Amyloidosis Overview

In medicine, amyloidosis refers to a variety of conditions in which amyloid proteins are abnormally deposited in organs and/or tissues, causing disease. A protein is amyloid if, due to an alteration in its secondary structure, it takes on a particular insoluble form, called the beta-pleated sheet. Approximately 25 different proteins are known that can form amyloid in humans. Most of them are constituents of the plasma. Different amyloidoses can be...