Table 1.

Summary of antibodies to Aβ

Antibody	Specificity	Type	Reference
4G8	Aβ17–24	M	Kim et al., 1990
Anti-N1D	Standard Aβ bearing the first N-terminal residue, AβN1D	P	Saido et al., 1995
Anti-N3 (pE)	Modified Aβ in which the first and second N-terminal residues are  deleted and the third Glu is converted to pyroGlu, AβN3 (pE)	P	Saido et al., 1995
BC05	Aβ ending at the forty-second C-terminal residue, AβC42	M	Suzuki et al., 1994
Anti-C42	Aβ ending at the forty-second C-terminal residue, AβC42	P	Saido et al., 1995
BA27	Aβ ending at the fortieth C-terminal residue, AβC40	M	Suzuki et al., 1994
Anti-C40	Aβ ending at the fortieth C-terminal residue, AβC40	P	Saido et al., 1995
Anti-C39	Aβ ending at the thirty-ninth C-terminal residue, AβC39	P	This study

M, Monoclonal antibody; P, polyclonal antibody.