The effect of corticosteroids on amyloid β precursor protein/amyloid precursor-like protein expression and processing in vivo

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 276, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-64

  Budas, Grant ^a   Coughlan, Christine M ^a   Seckl, Jonathan R ^b   Breen, Kieran C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aldosterone; Amyloid precursor like protein; Amyloid precursor protein; Corticosteroid; Dexamethasone; Stress

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; AMYLOID PROTEIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ADRENALECTOMY; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0032741786     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00790-9     Document Type: Article

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