Production and increased detection of amyloid β protein and amyloidogenic fragments in brain microvessels, meningeal vessels and choroid plexus in Alzheimer's disease

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 58-68

  Kalaria, Rajesh N ^a   Premkumar, Daniel R D ^a   Pax, Andrea B ^a   Cohen, Dawn L ^a   Lieberburg, Ivan ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Athena Neurosciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid protein; Basement membrane; Cerebral amyloid angiopathy; Cerebral meninges; Cerebral microvessels; Choroid plexus

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; ANTIBODY; COLLAGENASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; CAPILLARY; CAPILLARY BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHOROID PLEXUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MENINGEAL ARTERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SOLUBILIZATION; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030024170     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-328X(95)00180-Z     Document Type: Article

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