Liver X receptor β (LXRβ): A link between β-sitosterol and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-Parkinson's dementia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2094-2099

  Kim, Hyun Jin ^a   Fan, Xiaotang ^a   Gabbi, Chiara ^a   Yakimchuk, Konstantin ^a   Parini, Paolo ^a   Warner, Margaret ^a   Gustafsson, Jan Åke ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Cholesterol; Microglia; Neurodegenerative disease; Nuclear receptor

Indexed keywords

LIVER X RECEPTOR BETA; SITOSTEROL; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROGLIA; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CHOLESTEROL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOPAMINE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINES; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR NEURONS; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; SITOSTEROLS; SPINAL CORD; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

MUS;

EID: 41149111376     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711599105     Document Type: Article

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