Increase in the relative expression of tau with four microtubule binding repeat regions in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy brains

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 471-479

  Ingelsson, Martin ^a,b   Ramasamy, Karunya ^a   Russ, Carsten ^a   Freeman, Stefanie H ^a   Orne, Jennifer ^a   Raju, Susan ^a   Matsui, Toshifumi ^a   Growdon, John H ^a   Frosch, Matthew P ^a   Ghetti, Bernardino ^c   Brown, Robert H ^a   Irizarry, Michael C ^a   Hyman, Bradley T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Neurodegeneration; Neuropathology; Tau

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TAU PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXON; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY, PROGRESSIVE; TAU PROTEINS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 34948883291     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-007-0280-z     Document Type: Article

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