New clues to Alzheimer's disease: Unraveling the roles of amyloid and tau

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 850-852

  Yankner, Bruce A ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; AMYLOID PROTEIN; PRESENILIN; PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PRESENILIN-1; PRESENILIN-2; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0029792928     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0896-850     Document Type: Review

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