Gene analysis of the glucocorticoid receptor alpha in Alzheimer's disease

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 349, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 167-172

  Tsolakidou, Amalia F ^a   Coulocheri, Stavroula A ^a   Trikkas, George ^a   Moutsatsou, Paraskevi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis; Gene; Glucocorticoid receptor alpha; Mutation; Steroid

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR ALPHA; HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LIGANDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEIN DENATURATION; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 4744357878     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cccn.2004.06.014     Document Type: Article

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