Non-Aβ component of Alzheimer's disease amyloid (NAC) revisited: NAC and α-Synuclein are not associated with Aβ amyloid

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 155, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1173-1181

  Culvenor, Janetta G ^a   McLean, Catriona A ^a   Cutt, Sally ^a   Campbell, Bruce C V ^a   Maher, Fran ^a   Jäkälä, Pekka ^b,c   Hartmann, Tobias ^b   Beyreuther, Konrad ^b   Masters, Colin L ^a   Li, Qiao Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; SNCA PROTEIN, HUMAN; SNCA PROTEIN, RAT; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; SYNUCLEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEWY BODY; NEURITE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENILE PLAQUE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL CULTURE; EMBRYO; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEWY BODIES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEURONS; RATS; SENILE PLAQUES; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; SYNUCLEINS; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0032589409     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)65220-0     Document Type: Article

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