ADDL

English

Noun

ADDL (plural ADDLs)

1. (medicine) Initialism of amyloid beta-derived diffusible ligand: a kind of toxic oligomer implicated in Alzheimer's disease.
   • 2009 May, Sam Kissinger, edited by Corey S. Powell, Patrice G. Adcroft, and Michael F. Di Ioia, Discover, page 14:

     One experiment examined the effect of the protein insulin on ADDLs (amyloid-beta derived diffusible ligands), toxic proteins that build up in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, causing cell death.

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• Ladd