The zinc dyshomeostasis hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Craddock, Travis J A ^a   Tuszynski, Jack A ^a   Chopra, Deepak ^b   Casey, Noel ^c   Goldstein, Lee E ^c   Hameroff, Stuart R ^d   Tanzi, Rudolph E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b The Chopra Center for Well Being   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; GUANOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN; TUBULIN; ZINC;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; METALLOMIC IMAGING MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NONHUMAN; SUBICULUM; ZINC BINDING SITE; AGED; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

MUS MUSCULUS;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; BINDING SITES; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; TAU PROTEINS; ZINC;

EID: 84858767516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033552     Document Type: Article

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