Recent progress in Alzheimer's disease: Animal models lead the way

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 145-149

  Li, Tong ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; BETA SECRETASE; CLIOQUINOL; IBUPROFEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PRESENILIN 1; PRESENILIN 2;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOIDOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 23744468289     PISSN: 17406757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ddmod.2004.09.002     Document Type: Review

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