Twofold overexpression of human β-amyloid precursor proteins in transgenic mice does not affect the neuromotor, cognitive, or neurodegenerative sequelae following experimental brain injury

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 392, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 428-438

  Murai, Hisayuki ^a   Pierce, Jean E S ^a   Raghupathi, Ramesh ^a   Smith, Douglas H ^a   Saatman, Kathryn E ^a   Trojanowski, John Q ^a   Lee, Virginia M Y ^a   Loring, Jeanne F ^b   Eckman, Chris ^c   Younkin, Steven ^c   Mcintosh, Tracy K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Molecular Dynamics   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

amyloid peptides; Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid plaques; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; FEMALE; MALE; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; TOLONIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 0032536811     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980323)392:4<428::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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