A cell biological perspective on Alzheimer's disease

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 18, Issue , 2002, Pages 25-51

  Annaert, Wim ^a   De Strooper, Bart ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

APP; Nicastrin; Presenilin; Regulated intramembrane proteolysis; Secretase

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; BACE1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NICASTRIN PROTEIN; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; PRESENILIN 1; PSEN1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SECRETASE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; HUMAN; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN SECRETASES; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; ENDOPEPTIDASES; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PRESENILIN-1;

EID: 0036441486     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.18.020402.142302     Document Type: Review

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