Chapter 6 Monitoring Autophagy in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Neurodegenerative Diseases

Methods in Enzymology

Volumn 453, Issue C, 2009, Pages 111-144

  Yang, Dun Sheng ^a,b   Lee, Ju Hyun ^a,b   Nixon, Ralph A ^a,b  

^a NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; PRESENILIN; TAU PROTEIN;

ACIDIFICATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOPHAGY; AUTOPSY; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL VACUOLE; COLORIMETRY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LYSOSOME; MOLECULAR PROBE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHAGOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WESTERN BLOTTING; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELL CULTURE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALIA;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOPHAGY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES;

EID: 59649088562     PISSN: 00766879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0076-6879(08)04006-8     Document Type: Review

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