G protein subunit levels in fibroblasts from familial Alzheimer's disease patients: Lower levels of the high molecular weight Gsα isoform in patients with decreased β-adrenergic receptor stimulated cAMP formation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-36

  Shanahan, Carol ^a   Gibson, Gary E ^b   Cowburn, Richard F ^c   Johnston, Janet A ^c   Wiehager, Birgitta ^c   Lannfelt, Lars ^c   O'Neill, Cora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cultured skin fibroblasts; Familial Alzheimer's disease; G Proteins; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PRESENILIN 1; PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN FIBROBLAST;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC AMP; FAMILY HEALTH; FIBROBLASTS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; ISOMERISM; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, BETA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN;

EID: 0030770406     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00572-7     Document Type: Article

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