Glial tau-positive structures lack the sequence encoded by exon 3 of the tau protein gene

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 169-172

  Nishimura, Toru ^a   Ikeda, Kenji ^b   Akiyama, Haruhiko ^a   Arai, Tetsuaki ^a   Kondo, Hiromi ^a   Okochi, Masayasu ^a   Furiya, Yoshiko ^a   Mori, Hiroshi ^a   Oda, Tatsuro ^b   Kato, Masanori ^c   Iseki, Eizo ^d  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization Shimofusa Psychiatric Medical Center   (Japan)

^c Soga Hospital   (Japan)

^d YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Astrocyte; Coiled body; Oligodendroglia; Tangle

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SENILE PLAQUE;

AGED; BRAIN; EXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROGLIA; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0030996319     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00161-4     Document Type: Article

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