Toxicity of Alzheimer's disease-associated Aβ peptide is ameliorated in a Drosophila model by tight control of zinc and copper availability

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 392, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 919-926

  Hua, Haiqing ^a   Münter, Lisa ^b   Harmeier, Anja ^b   Georgiev, Oleg ^a   Multhaup, Gerd ^b   Schaffner, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; amyloid protein; copper; heavy metal stress; MTF 1; zinc

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-42]; COPPER ION; METALLOTHIONEIN; SCAVENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MTF 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC ION;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; DEGENERATION; DETOXIFICATION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DROSOPHILA; EYE; EYE INJURY; HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TOXICITY; TRANSGENE;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ANIMALS; CHELATING AGENTS; COPPER; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; METALLOTHIONEIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES; UP-REGULATION; ZINC;

EID: 80052779276     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2011.084     Document Type: Article

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