Imidazoline receptor proteins in brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 247, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 95-98

  García Sevilla, Jesús A ^a,b   Escribá, Pablo V ^b   Walzer, Claude ^a   Bouras, Constantin ^a   Guimón, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b Laboratory of Neuropharmacology   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Imidazoline receptor proteins; Postmortem human brain; Western immunoblotting

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IDAZOXAN; IMIDAZOLINE RECEPTOR;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN MITOCHONDRION; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RECEPTOR BINDING; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032524606     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00265-1     Document Type: Article

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