Alteration of transcription factors NF-κB and STAT1 in Alzheimer's disease brains

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-20

  Kitamura, Yoshihisa ^a   Shimohama, Shun ^b   Ota, Takashi ^a   Matsuoka, Yasuji ^a   Nomura, Yasuyuki ^c   Taniguchi, Takashi ^a  

^a KYOTO PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Inducible nitric oxide synthase; Inflammatory activation; Nuclear factor B; Signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 ; Temporal cortex; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ENZYME INDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CYTOSOL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MIDDLE AGED; NF-KAPPA B; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 0030671370     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00797-0     Document Type: Article

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