Apolipoprotein e and its receptors in Alzheimer's disease: Pathways, pathogenesis and therapy

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 333-344

  Bu, Guojun ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; ANTERIOR PHARYNX DEFECTIVE 1 PROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN B; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; ENDOTHELIN CONVERTING ENZYME; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; INSULINASE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MEGALIN; MEMBRANE METALLOENDOPEPTIDASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 9; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; NICASTRIN; PLASMIN; PRESENILIN 1; PRESENILIN 2; PROTEIN KINASE C DELTA; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; TAU PROTEIN; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; LIPID BRAIN LEVEL; LIPID TRANSPORT; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; HUMANS; LDL-RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 1; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 67349270965     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2620     Document Type: Review

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