Alzheimer's disease neurofibrillary degeneration: Pivotal and multifactorial

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 962-966

  Iqbal, Khalid ^a   Wang, Xiaochuan ^b   Blanchard, Julie ^a   Liu, Fei ^a   Gong, Cheng Xin ^a   Grundke Iqbal, Inge ^a  

^a NEW YORK STATE INSTITUTE FOR BASIC RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES   (United States)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Abnormally hyperphosphorylated tau; Alzheimer's disease; Microtubule associated protein; Neurofibrillary pathology; Protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A); Tauopathy

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-42]; ASPARAGINE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2A; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2A INHIBITOR 2; TAU PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENO ASSOCIATED VIRUS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CYTOPLASM; DEMENTIA; DRUG TARGETING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; REVIEW;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; RATS; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES;

RATTUS;

EID: 77955949134     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0380962     Document Type: Review

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