Elevated levels of tau-protein in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 210-212

  Otto, Markus ^a   Wiltfang, Jens ^a   Tumani, Hayrettin ^a   Zerr, Inga ^a   Lantsch, Maria ^a   Kornhuber, Johannes ^a   Weber, Thomas ^b   Kretzschmar, Hans A ^a   Poser, Sigrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Marienkrankenhaus Hamburg ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; cerebrospinal fluid; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; dementia; ELISA; tau protein

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEMENTIA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0030934518     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00215-2     Document Type: Article

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