Serpents on the road to dementia and death

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 723-725

  Beyreuther, Konrad ^a   Masters, Colin L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOIDOSIS; DEATH; DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; NERVE DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MUTATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PRESENILIN-1; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECEPTOR, NOTCH1; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030791479     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0797-723     Document Type: Short Survey

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