Comparable amyloid β-protein (Aβ) 42(43) and Aβ40 deposition in the aged monkey brain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 214, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 196-198

  Kanemaru, Kazutomi ^a   Iwatsubo, Takeshi ^b   Ihara, Yasuo ^b  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aged monkey brain; Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid protein

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030598952     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12893-7     Document Type: Article

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