Role of synucleins in Alzheimer's disease

Neurotoxicity Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 306-317

  Crews, Leslie ^a,b   Tsigelny, Igor ^b,c   Hashimoto, Makoto ^d   Masliah, Eliezer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's; Amyloid; APP; Parkinson's; Synuclein

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; MEMBRANE METALLOENDOPEPTIDASE; SYNUCLEIN; VIRUS VECTOR;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARKINSON DISEASE; SYNUCLEINS;

MUS;

EID: 70349895344     PISSN: 10298428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12640-009-9073-6     Document Type: Article

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