Upper airway dysfunction of tau-P301L mice correlates with tauopathy in midbrain and ponto-medullary brainstem nuclei

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1810-1821

  Dutschmann, Mathias ^a,b   Menuet, Clement ^c   Stettner, Georg M ^d   Gestreau, Christian ^c   Borghgraef, Peter ^e   Devijver, Herman ^e   Gielis, Lies ^e   Hilaire, Gerard ^c   Van Leuven, Fred ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN STEM; BREATHING MECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; HYPERCAPNIA; IN VIVO STUDY; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; LARYNX; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR NERVE; MOUSE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPIL THREAD; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PHENOTYPE; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PONS ANGLE; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RESPIRATORY AIRFLOW; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; TAUOPATHY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MESENCEPHALON; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY VENTILATION; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES;

EID: 76149113615     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5261-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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