Neurotoxicity and oxidative damage of beta amyloid 1-42 versus beta amyloid 1-40 in the mouse cerebral cortex

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 893, Issue , 1999, Pages 314-320

  Klein, Autumn M ^a,b   Kowall, Neil W ^a,b   Ferrante, Robert J ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; 8 HYDROXYDEOXYGUANOSINE; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ASTROCYTE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FRONTAL CORTEX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033385632     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb07845.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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