Quantitative assessment of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor proteins in the cerebral cortex of Alzheimer patients

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 385-388

  Burghaus, Lothar ^a   Schütz, Ulrich ^a   Krempel, Udo ^a   De Vos, Rob A I ^b   Jansen Steur, Ernst N H ^c   Wevers, Andrea ^a   Lindstrom, Jon ^d   Schröder, Hannsjörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Laboratorium Pathologie Oost Nederland   (Netherlands)

^c MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; Western blot

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BINDING SITE; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AUTOPSY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 0034728596     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(00)00031-0     Document Type: Article

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