The tau gene locus and frontotemporal dementia

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 258-260

  Pickering Brown, Stuart ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frontotemporal dementia; Neuronal inclusions; Tau FTDP 17

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; CHROMOSOME 17; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE COURSE; EXON; FAMILY HISTORY; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 2642586385     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000077149     Document Type: Conference Paper

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