Volume 8 Issue 1
Amyloid Biomarkers in Conformational Diseases at Face Value: A Systematic Review
Maria Fernanda Avila-Vazquez, Nelly F. Altamirano-Bustamante and Myriam M. Altamirano-Bustamante
1Unidad de Investigación en Enfermedades Metabólicas, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, IMSS, Mexico City 06720, Mexico
2Health Department, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City 01219, Mexico
3Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Mexico City 04530, Mexico
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Abstract
Conformational diseases represent a new aspect of proteomic medicine where diagnostic and therapeutic paradigms are evolving. In this context, the early biomarkers for target cell failure (neurons, β-cells, etc.) represent a challenge to translational medicine and play a multidimensional role as biomarkers and potential therapeutic targets. This systematic review, which follows the PICO and Prisma methods, analyses this new-fangled multidimensionality, its strengths and limitations, and presents the future possibilities it opens up. The nuclear diagnosis methods are immunoassays: ELISA, immunodot, western blot, etc., while the therapeutic approach is focused on pharmaco- and molecular chaperones.
Keywords:biomarker; conformational diseases; Alzheimer’s disease; diabetes mellitus; amyloid oligomers; cytotoxic oligomers