Postmortem changes in the phosphorylation state of tau-protein in the rat brain

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 535-543

  Gärtner, Ulrich ^a   Janke, Carsten ^a   Holzer, Max ^a   Vanmechelen, Eugeen ^b   Arendt, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b INNOGENETICS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

12E8; AT100; AT180; AT270; AT8; BR134; Immersion fixation; Immunohistochemistry; Perfusion fixation; PHF 1; Postmortem delay; Rat; Tau 1; Tau protein; Two dimensional gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN ANTIBODY; TAU PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN TISSUE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; EPITOPES; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEOCORTEX; PHOSPHORYLATION; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TAU PROTEINS; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 0032451407     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(98)00094-3     Document Type: Article

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