Neurofibrillary tangles in progressive supranuclear palsy brains exhibit immunoreactivity to frameshift mutant ubiquitin-B protein

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 279, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 69-72

  Fergusson, Jill ^a   Landon, Michael ^a   Lowe, James ^b   Ward, Lianne ^b   Van Leeuwen, Fred W ^c   Mayer, R John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Netherlands Inst Brain R ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Frameshift mutant; Immunohistochemistry; Neurofibrillary tangle; Paired helical filaments; Progressive supranuclear palsy; Tau; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE NUMBER; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY;

AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BRAIN; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEUROGLIA; PONS; SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY, PROGRESSIVE; TAU PROTEINS; UBIQUITINS;

EID: 0033959110     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00917-9     Document Type: Article

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