GSK3β signalling: Casting a wide net in Alzheimer's disease

NeuroSignals

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 251-261

  Bhat, Ratan V ^a   Budd, Samantha L ^a  

^a ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Signal transduction; Tau kinase

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1; TAU PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT; WNT PROTEIN; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3 BETA;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA BINDING; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HUMAN; MICROTUBULE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PSYCHOSIS;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; HUMANS; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036769733     PISSN: 1424862X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000067423     Document Type: Review

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