... suchas in the case of chaperone action. Restricting us toamyoidic structures, techniques such as NMR [21],EPR [22], electron microscopy and atomic forcemicroscopy [23] and X-ray diffraction [24], ... monitoring of fibril growth is essential, but is also very technicallydemanding. This article reviews a selection of spectro-scopic techniques, predominantly fluorescence tech-niques, recently used and ... oligomers: spectroscopic characterization of amyloidogenic protein statesMikael Lindgren1 and Per Hammarstro¨m21 Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim,...