Tau truncation during neurofibrillary tangle evolution in Alzheimer's disease

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1015-1022

  Guillozet Bongaarts, Angela L ^a   Garcia Sierra, Francisco ^a,b   Reynolds, Matthew R ^a   Horowitz, Peleg M ^a   Fu, Yifan ^a   Wang, Tianyi ^a   Cahill, Michael E ^a   Bigio, Eileen H ^a   Berry, Robert W ^a   Binder, Lester I ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Caspase; Cleavage; Conformation; Tangle formation; Tau C3

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ASPARTIC ACID; EPITOPE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY ALZ 50; TAU PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURITE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPIL THREAD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 20044381844     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2004.09.019     Document Type: Article

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