Tau-66: Evidence for a novel tau conformation in alzheimer's disease

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1372-1385

  Ghoshal, Nupur ^a   García Sierra, Francisco ^a   Fu, Yifan ^a   Beckett, Laurel A ^b   Mufson, Elliott J ^b   Kuret, Jeff ^c   Berry, Robert W ^a   Binder, Lester I ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Antibody; Conformation; Epitope; Tau

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYPEPTIDE; TAU PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CINGULATE GYRUS; DELETION MUTANT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOUSE; NEURITE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; HYBRIDOMAS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0035011587     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.2001.00346.x     Document Type: Article

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