Evidence of presynaptic location and function of the prion protein

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 8866-8875

  Herms, Jochen ^a   Tings, Tobias ^a   Gall, Stefan ^a   Madlung, Axel ^a   Giese, Armin ^a   Siebert, Heike ^a   Peter Schurmann O ^a   Windl, Tto ^a   Brose, Nils ^b   Kretzschmar, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Copper; Hydrogen peroxide; Prion protein; Synaptic transmission; Synaptosomes

Indexed keywords

COPPER; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PRION PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SYNAPTOSOME; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0033570367     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-20-08866.1999     Document Type: Article

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