No superoxide dismutase activity of cellular prion protein in vivo

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 384, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1279-1285

  Hutter, Gregor ^a   Heppner, Frank L ^a   Aguzzi, Adriano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Prion disease; PrPc; SOD; Synaptosomes; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; PRION PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DOSAGE; GENOTYPE; HEART; HEMIZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HYPOTHESIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPLEEN; SYNAPTOSOME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PRION DISEASES; PRPC PROTEINS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; SYNAPTOSOMES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0141717118     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2003.142     Document Type: Article

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