Alzheimer's Disease and Type 2 Diabetes: Different Pathologies and Same Features,

Protein aggregation is a very fascinating matter due to its implication in many human neurodegenerative diseases and its relevance in food and pharmaceutical industries. In some cases, the aggregation of protein is a natural phenomenon occurring in living organisms.Increasing evidence suggests that the non-physiological aggregation of proteins such beta-amyloid, alpha-synuclein, huntingtin and ataxin, superoxide-dismutase 1 (SOD1), Tau and Amylin, is responsible for the onset of many neurodegenerative pathologies such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration and Type 2 Diabetes (or diabetes mellitus).