Amyloid-beta precursor protein processing in neurodegeneration

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 582-588

  Wilquet, Valérie ^a   Strooper, Bart De ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; PEPTIDE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN REGION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN SECRETASES; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ENDOPEPTIDASES; BRAIN; CELL MEMBRANE; ENDOPEPTIDASES; HUMANS; MUTATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 5344240284     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2004.08.001     Document Type: Review

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