Mutations causing neurodegenerative tauopathies

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease

Volumn 1739, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 240-250

  Goedert, Michel ^a   Jakes, Ross ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frontotemporal dementia; Mutation; Parkinsonism; Tau filament; Tau protein isoform; Tauopathy

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

CHROMOSOME 17; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; EXON; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HAPLOTYPE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTRON; MISSENSE MUTATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PICK PRESENILE DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAUOPATHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MUTATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 11144258263     PISSN: 09254439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2004.08.007     Document Type: Review

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