Caspases land on APP: One small step for apoptosis, one giant leap for amyloidosis?

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 585-586

  Tanzi, Rudolph E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; CASPASE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOIDOSIS; APOPTOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SHORT SURVEY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; AMYLOIDOSIS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASES; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

EID: 0033358871     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/10133     Document Type: Short Survey

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