The native form of α-synuclein is not found in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with Parkinson's disease or normal controls

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 253, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 13-16

  Jakowec, M W ^a   Petzinger, G M ^a   Sastry, S ^a   Donaldson, D M ^a   McCormack, A ^a   Langston, J W ^a  

^a PARKINSON S INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cerebrospinal fluid; NACP; Non A amyloid; Western immunoblotting

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LEWY BODY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; REFERENCE VALUES; SYNUCLEINS;

EID: 0032575616     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00599-0     Document Type: Article

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