Human fetal tau protein isoform: Possibilities for Alzheimer's disease treatment

International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1290-1294

  Jovanov Milošević, Nataša ^a   Petrović, Davor ^b   Sedmak, Goran ^a   Vukšić, Mario ^a   Hof, Patrick R ^c   Šimić, Goran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^b KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Brain development; Deafferentation; Entorhinal cortex lesion; Mild cognitive impairment; Paired helical filaments PHF; Tau potein kinases

Indexed keywords

FETOPROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN KINASE; TAU PROTEIN;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DEAFFERENTATION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PAIRED HELICAL FILAMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW;

MUS;

EID: 84861560498     PISSN: 13572725     EISSN: 18785875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocel.2012.05.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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