Intracellular amyloid-β in Alzheimer's disease

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 499-509

  LaFerla, Frank M ^a   Green, Kim N ^a   Oddo, Salvatore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAM PROTEIN; ADVANCED GLYCATION END PRODUCT; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; BETA SECRETASE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN PS2; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DISEASE COURSE; DOWN SYNDROME; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INCLUSION BODY MYOSITIS; LEARNING DISORDER; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OLIGOMERIZATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; BRAIN; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; SENILE PLAQUES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 34250819839     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2168     Document Type: Review

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