Increased brain lysosomal pepstatin-insensitive proteinase activity in patients with neurodegenerative diseases

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 264, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 157-160

  Junaid, Mohammed A ^a   Pullarkat, Raju K ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Lysosomes; Neurodegeneration; Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis; Pepstatin insensitive proteinase

Indexed keywords

PEPSTATIN; PROTEINASE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIPOFUSCINOSIS; LYSOSOME; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHILD; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKODYSTROPHY, GLOBOID CELL; MALE; MANNOSE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONAL CEROID-LIPOFUSCINOSES; PEPSTATINS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0033515854     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00095-6     Document Type: Article

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