Hereditary frontotemporal dementia caused by Tau gene mutations

Brain Pathology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-73

  Van Swieten, John ^a   Spillantini, Maria Grazia ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TAU PROTEIN;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME 17; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PARKINSONISM; PATHOLOGY; RNA SPLICING;

BRAIN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MUTATION; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 33847194237     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2007.00052.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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