MeSH note : although acutely neurotoxic in both rat & monkey cerebral cortex, neuronal degeneration
in primates resembles more closely to that found in Alzheimer's disease; amino acid
sequence has been determined;
MeSH synonym : A beta 1-40; beta-amyloid (1-40); beta amyloid fragment (1-40); Abeta40 protein; amyloid beta protein (1-40);