Neurotrophic factors and Alzheimer's disease: Are we focusing on the wrong molecule?

Journal of Neural Transmission, Supplement

Volumn , Issue 62, 2002, Pages 241-252

  Fahnestock, M ^a   Garzon, D ^a   Holsinger, R M D ^a   Michalski, B ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; MEYNERT BASAL NUCLEUS; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0036047652     PISSN: 03036995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-6139-5_22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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