Many neuronal and behavioral impairments in transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer's disease are independent of caspase cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 372-381

  Harris, Julie A ^a   Devidze, Nino ^a   Halabisky, Brian ^a   Lo, Iris ^a   Thwin, Myo T ^a   Yu, Gui Qiu ^a   Bredesen, Dale E ^a,b   Masliah, Eliezer ^c   Mucke, Lennart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; CASPASE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE MUTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; CASPASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; HYDROLYSIS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 74849103981     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5341-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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