Down-regulation of amyloid precursor protein by peptide nucleic acid oligomer in cultured rat primary neurons and astrocytes

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 336, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-59

  Adlerz, Linda ^a   Soomets, Ursel ^a,b   Holmlund, Linda ^a   Viirlaid, Säde ^b   Langel, Ülo ^a   Iverfeldt, Kerstin ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid precursor protein; Antisense; Cerebellar granule cells; Peptide nucleic acid

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGOMER; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL ASSAY; CELL CULTURE; CODON; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DOWN REGULATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GRANULE CELL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTINS; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOWN-REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDE NUCLEIC ACIDS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, ANTISENSE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037426707     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)01219-3     Document Type: Article

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