Untangling tau-related dementia

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 979-986

  Heutink, P ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MICROTUBULE; NERVE DEGENERATION; ONSET AGE; PARKINSONISM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 0034640005     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/9.6.979     Document Type: Review

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