Axonal degeneration induced by targeted expression of mutant human tau in oligodendrocytes of transgenic mice that model glial tauopathies

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 41, 2005, Pages 9434-9443

  Higuchi, Makoto ^a   Zhang, Bin ^a   Forman, Mark S ^a   Yoshiyama, Yasumasa ^a   Trojanowski, John Q ^a   Lee, Virginia M Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal transport; Myelin; Neurodegeneration; Oligodendrocyte; Tau; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

2' 3' CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE 3' PHOSPHODIESTERASE; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE; DIRECT YELLOW 7; MUTANT PROTEIN; MYELIN; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; TAU PROTEIN; THIOFLAVINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INCLUSION; CHROMOSOME 17; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GLIA; HEREDITARY FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA WITH PARKINSONISM; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; TAUOPATHY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROGLIA; OLIGODENDROGLIA; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES;

EID: 26844433190     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2691-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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