Age-dependent differential expression of BACE splice variants in brain regions of tg2576 mice

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1167-1175

  Zohar, O ^a   Pick, C G ^b   Cavallaro, S ^c   Chapman, J ^b,d   Katzav, A ^b   Milman, A ^b   Alkon, D L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Italy)

^d SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Secretase; Age dependent; Alternative splice variants; Alzheimer disease; APP; Brain regions; tg2576 transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; BETA SECRETASE;

AGE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WILD TYPE;

AGING; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN SECRETASES; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 19444384834     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2004.10.005     Document Type: Article

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