Mutant genes in familial Alzheimer's disease and transgenic models

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue , 1998, Pages 479-505

  Price, Donald L ^a   Sisodia, Sangram S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

A deposition; Amyloid precursor protein; Function; Metabolism; Presenilins

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION;

EID: 0031921466     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.21.1.479     Document Type: Review

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