Up-regulation of tau, a brain microtubule-associated protein, in lens cortical fractions of aged αA-, αB-, and αA/B-crystallin knockout mice

Molecular Vision

Volumn 13, Issue , 2007, Pages 1589-1600

  Bai, Fang ^a   Xi, Jing Hua ^a   Andley, Usha P ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BRAIN PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; TAU 2 PROTEIN; TAU 4 PROTEIN; TAU 6 PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IMMUNOREGULATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LENS; LENS FIBER; MICROTUBULE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

AGING; ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN A CHAIN; ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN B CHAIN; ANIMALS; BRAIN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LENS CORTEX, CRYSTALLINE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TAU PROTEINS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 34548557727     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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