Role of the APP promoter in Alzheimer's disease: Cell type-specific expression of the β-amyloid precursor protein

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1030, Issue , 2004, Pages 310-316

  Lahiri, Debomoy K ^a   Ge, Yuan Wen ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain disorders; Dementia; Gene regulation; Nuclear factor; Promoter; Tissue specificity; Transcription factors; peptide

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; DNA;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL STRAIN; CELL TYPE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSFECTION; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GLIA CELL; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NERVE CELL; NEUROBLASTOMA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 15044353664     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1329.039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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