Association of phosphorylation site of tau protein with neuronal apoptosis in Alzheimer's disease

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 208, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 17-24

  Kobayashi, Katsuji ^a   Nakano, Hiroyuki ^a   Hayashi, Masahiro ^b   Shimazaki, Masao ^a   Fukutani, Yuken ^c   Sasaki, Kazuo ^c   Sugimori, Kaoru ^a   Koshino, Yoshifumi ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Apoptosis; Neurofibrillary tangles; Pretangle neurons; TUNEL

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TAU PROTEIN; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NICK END LABELING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0037445602     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(02)00410-0     Document Type: Article

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