Staging the pathological assembly of truncated tau protein into paired helical filaments in Alzheimer's disease

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 633-641

  Mena, Raúl ^b   Edwards, Patricia C ^a   Harrington, Charles R ^a   Mukaetova Ladinska, Elizabeta B ^a   Wischik, Claude M ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Confocal microscopy; Monoclonal antibody 423; Paired helical filaments; Tau protein

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NEURITE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TANDEM REPEAT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0029997922     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050477     Document Type: Article

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