Characterization of pathology in transgenic mice over-expressing human genomic and cDNA tau transgenes

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 87-98

  Duff, K ^a   Knight, H ^b   Refolo, L M ^a   Sanders, S ^c   Yu, X ^c   Picciano, M ^a   Malester, B ^a   Hutton, M ^c   Adamson, J ^c   Goedert, M ^e   Burki, K ^d   Davies, P ^f  

^a NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Commonwealth Biotechnologies Inc ^*  (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^e MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^f ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIMB DEFECT; MOUSE; NEURITE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0034016093     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nbdi.1999.0279     Document Type: Article

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