Cholesterol and Tau Protein - Findings in Alzheimer's and Niemann Pick C's Disease

Pharmacopsychiatry

Volumn 36, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2003, Pages

  Ohm, T G ^a,b   Treiber Held, S ^a   Distl, R ^a   Glockner F ^a   Schonheit B ^a   Tamanai, M ^a   Meske, V ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; EPITOPE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; ISOPRENOID; MEVINOLIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY 12E8; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY AT8; TAU PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL CULTURE; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOSOME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FATALITY; HUMAN; JUVENILE; LIPIDOSIS; LYSOSOME; MICROTUBULE; MYELIN SHEATH; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NIEMANN PICK DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ACYL COENZYME A; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; ASTROCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CALCIUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLESTEROL; DEXTRANS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FILIPIN; HUMANS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL-COA REDUCTASE INHIBITORS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOVASTATIN; MEVALONIC ACID; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROGLIA; MICROTUBULES; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEURONS; NIEMANN-PICK DISEASES; PROTEINS; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TAU PROTEINS; TUBULIN;

EID: 0142045683     PISSN: 01763679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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