Microtubule-associated protein tau in human fibroblasts with the Swedish Alzheimer mutation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 9-12

  Ingelson, Martin ^a   Vanmechelen, Eugeen ^b   Lannfelt, Lars ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b INNOGENETICS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; amyloid peptide; fibroblasts; perpheral marker; tau; the Swedish Alzheimer mutation

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 18144445001     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(96)13218-3     Document Type: Article

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