Trans-synaptic spread of tau pathology in vivo

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Li ^a   Drouet, Valerie ^a   Wu, Jessica W ^a   Witter, Menno P ^b   Small, Scott A ^c   Clelland, Catherine ^a   Duff, Karen ^a,d  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c New York State Psychiatric Institute ^*  (United States)

^d NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUBICULUM; TAU GENE; TAUOPATHY; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; DISEASE COURSE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SYNAPSE; TIME; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; RNA, MESSENGER; SYNAPSES; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84856454190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031302     Document Type: Article

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