Could PKR inhibition modulate human neurodegeneration?

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1455-1457

  Hugon, Jacques ^c   Paquet, Claire ^a   Chang, Raymond Chuen Chung ^b  

^a HÔPITAL FERNAND WIDAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOPURINE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; IMIDAZOLE; INITIATION FACTOR 2ALPHA; MINOCYCLINE; OXINDOLE; PROTEIN KINASE R; PROTEIN KINASE R INHIBITOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; CELL STRESS; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DRUG MECHANISM; EDITORIAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME REGULATION; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; HUMANS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; SERINE;

EID: 70350167138     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: 17448360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ern.09.92     Document Type: Editorial

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