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Published on: March 19, 2010
Single-particle detection system for Abeta aggregates: adaptation of surface-fluorescence intensity distribution
Susanne Aileen Funke1, Lei Wang, Eva Birkmann
1Forschungszentrum Jülich, ISB-3, 52425 Jülich, Germany.
Abstract:
Today, Alzheimer disease (AD) can be diagnosed with certainty only post mortem. A biomarker method for early diagnosis of AD is urgently needed. Abeta aggregates are directly involved in AD progression and therefore might be useful as biomarker in body fluids. We have developed an ultrasensitive assay system for the detection of Abeta aggregates in body fluids, called surface-fluorescence intensity distribution analysis (FIDA). Surface-FIDA in its first version was based on fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. Here we show that surface-FIDA can also be performed using a laser scanning microscope setup and is then nicely suitable for the characterization of Abeta aggregates.
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