Alzheimer's disease hyperphosphorylated tau sequesters normal tau into tangles of filaments and disassembles microtubules

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 783-787

  Del C Alonso, Alejandra ^a,b   Grundke Iqbal, Inge ^a   Iqbal, Khalid ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROTUBULE; NEUROFILAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; TAU PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0029999787     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0796-783     Document Type: Article

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