Alterations in human tau transcripts correlate with those of neurofilament in sporadic tauopathies

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 359, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 151-154

  Umeda, Yuri ^a   Taniguchi, Sayuri ^a,b   Arima, Kunimasa ^c   Piao, Yue Shan ^d   Takahashi, Hitoshi ^d   Iwatsubo, Takeshi ^b   Mann, David ^e   Hasegawa, Masato ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry   (Japan)

^d NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3R, three repeat; 4R, four repeat; AD, Alzheimer's disease; Alzheimer's disease; Corticobasal degeneration; Frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17; Pick's disease; Progressive supranuclear palsy; Tau

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUROFILAMENT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PICK PRESENILE DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REFERENCE VALUES; STATISTICS; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 1842451983     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.01.060     Document Type: Article

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