Age-dependent emergence and progression of a tauopathy in transgenic mice overexpressing the shortest human tau isoform

Neuron

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 751-762

  Ishihara, Takeshi ^a   Hong, Ming ^a   Zhang, Bin ^a   Nakagawa, Yasushi ^a   Lee, Michael K ^b   Trojanowski, John Q ^a   Lee, Virginia M Y ^a  

^a Laboratory Medicine   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GLIOSIS; MICROTUBULE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SPINAL CORD; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VENTRAL ROOT;

EID: 0033230886     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)81127-7     Document Type: Article

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