Tau as a drug target in Alzheimer's disease

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 337-338

  Gozes, Illana ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASEIN KINASE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 5; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE PIN1; PROTEIN; PROTEIN P25; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TAU PROTEIN; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TARGETING; EDITORIAL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MICROTUBULE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE 5; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3; HUMANS; MICE; MICROTUBULES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE; PHOSPHORYLATION; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0036928604     PISSN: 08958696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/JMN:19:3:337     Document Type: Editorial

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