Caspase-cleaved amyloid precursor protein and activated caspase-3 are co-localized in the granules of granulovacuolar degeneration in Alzheimer's disease and Down's syndrome brain

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-6

  Su, Joseph H ^a   Kesslak, J Patrick ^a   Head, Elizabeth ^a   Cotman, Carl W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activated caspase 3; Alzheimer's disease; Caspase cleaved amyloid precursor protein; Down's syndrome; Granulovacuolar degeneration

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; CELL NUCLEUS DNA; FODRIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA DAMAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DOWN SYNDROME; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; BRAIN; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CASPASES; CYTOPLASM; DOWN SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS; VACUOLES;

EID: 0036934466     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-002-0548-2     Document Type: Article

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