Hibernation model of tau phosphorylation in hamsters: Selective vulnerability of cholinergic basal forebrain neurons - Implications for Alzheimer's disease

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-80

  Härtig, Wolfgang ^a   Stieler, Jens ^a   Boerema, Ate S ^b   Wolf, Jennifer ^a   Schmidt, Udo ^a   Weißfuß, Jana ^a   Bullmann, Torsten ^a   Strijkstra, Arjen M ^b   Arendt, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Animal model; AT8; Septo hippocampal projection; Syrian hamster; Torpor

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; TAU PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL VIABILITY; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; FOREBRAIN; HIBERNATION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PAIRED HELICAL FILAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CRICETINAE; CYTOSKELETON; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIBERNATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROSENCEPHALON; TAU PROTEINS; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 33846203763     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.05250.x     Document Type: Article

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