# Nuclide record amyloid-beta (target). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from Nuclide (nuclide.cc)". Whole corpus: https://nuclide.cc/api/v1/nuclide.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix nuclide: <https://nuclide.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://nuclide.cc/targets/amyloid-beta/>
  a schema:BioChemEntity ;
  nuclide:kind "target" ;
  schema:identifier "amyloid-beta" ;
  schema:name "Amyloid beta plaques"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Aβ"@en, "beta-amyloid neuritic plaques"@en ;
  schema:description "Sticky clumps of protein that build up in the brain in Alzheimer's disease. PET scans using tracers that bind these clumps can show a doctor how much amyloid is present, well before it would show up on a brain biopsy."@en ;
  schema:url <https://nuclide.cc/targets/amyloid-beta/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-22"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2012/202008s000lbl.pdf>, <https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-details/fda-approves-updated-label-lillys-amyvid-florbetapir-f-18>, <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9165727/>, <https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/view/ncacal-decision-memo.aspx?proposed=N&NCAId=265> ;
  nuclide:tag "neurology", "Alzheimer's disease", "protein aggregate" ;
  nuclide:targetClass "other" ;
  nuclide:related <https://nuclide.cc/targets/tau-protein/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/f-18/>, <https://nuclide.cc/isotopes/c-11/> .