Phosphorylated tau in human cerebrospinal fluid is a diagnostic marker for Alzheimer's disease

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 270, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 91-94

  Ishiguro, Koichi ^a   Ohno, Hideto ^b   Arai, Hiroyuki ^c   Yamaguchi, Haruyasu ^d   Urakami, Katsuya ^e   Park, Jung Mi ^a   Sato, Kazuki ^a   Kohno, Hideki ^b   Imahori, Kazutomo ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI KASEI INST OF LIFE SCI   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cerebrospinal fluid; Diagnosis; Enzyme immunoassay; Phosphorylation; Tau

Indexed keywords

SERINE; TAU PROTEIN; THREONINE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PAIRED HELICAL FILAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHOSPHORYLATION; REFERENCE VALUES; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0033618534     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00476-0     Document Type: Article

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