Presenilin-1 exists in the axoplasm fraction in the brains of aged Down's syndrome subjects and non-demented individuals

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 267, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 121-124

  Sekijima, Yoshiki ^a   Kametani, Fuyuki ^b   Tanaka, Kikuko ^b   Okochi, Masayasu ^b   Usami, Mihoko ^b   Mori, Hiroshi ^b,c   Tokuda, Takahiko ^a   Ikeda, Shu Ich ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b University of Tokyo   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Axonal flotation method; Axoplasm fraction; Down's syndrome; Immunoblotting; Presenilin 1

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PRESENILIN 1;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; AXOPLASM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AXONS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CELL FRACTIONATION; CYTOPLASM; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRESENILIN-1;

EID: 0033612249     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00348-1     Document Type: Article

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