Axonal transport and neurodegenerative disease

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease

Volumn 1762, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1094-1108

  Chevalier Larsen, Erica ^a   Holzbaur, Erika L F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ALS; Axonal transport; Cytoplasmic dynein; Cytoskeleton; Kinesin; Molecular motors

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; COPPER ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; DYNACTIN; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; KINESIN; MOLECULAR MOTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; RNA; SPASTIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DAMAGE; CYTOSKELETON; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DROSOPHILA; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; CYTOSKELETON; DYNEIN ATPASE; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; KINESIN; MICE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

EID: 33751020569     PISSN: 09254439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2006.04.002     Document Type: Review

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