Protein coding of neurodegenerative dementias: The neuropathological basis of biomarker diagnostics

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 389-408

  Kovacs, Gabor G ^a   Botond, Gergo ^a   Budka, Herbert ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

synuclein; Amyloid (A ); Biomarker; FUS; Neurodegenerative disease; Prion protein; Protein code; Tau; TDP 43

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PRION PROTEIN; TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BODY FLUID; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW; TAUOPATHY; UPREGULATION;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS; PRIONS; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 77953023964     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-010-0658-1     Document Type: Review

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