Detection of complement factor B in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy disease using two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 282, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 149-152

  Ünlü, Mustafa ^a   De Lange, Robert P J ^a   De Silva, Rajith ^b   Kalaria, Raj ^c   St Clair, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy; Cerebrospinal fluid; Complement factor B; Mass spectrometry; Two dimensional gel electrophoresis

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE COMPLEMENT PATHWAY C3 C5 CONVERTASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPLEMENT ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPLEMENT FACTOR B; DEMENTIA, MULTI-INFARCT; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 0342470661     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)00875-2     Document Type: Article

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