Transgenic animal models of tauopathies

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease

Volumn 1739, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 251-259

  Lee, Virginia M Y ^a   Kenyon, Theresa K ^a   Trojanowski, John Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Frontotemporal dementia; Tau; Tauopathy; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME 17; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GLIA; LYSOSOME; MACHADO JOSEPH DISEASE; MEMORY DISORDER; MISSENSE MUTATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TAUOPATHY; TRANSGENICS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BRAIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 10944231216     PISSN: 09254439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2004.06.014     Document Type: Review

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