Long-term oral intake of aluminium or zinc does not accelerate Alzheimer pathology in AβPP and AβPP/tau transgenic mice

Neuropathology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 390-397

  Akiyama, Haruhiko ^a   Hosokawa, Masato ^a   Kametani, Fuyuki ^a   Kondo, Hiromi ^a   Chiba, Momoko ^d   Fukushima, Masako ^b   Tabira, Takeshi ^c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b SHOWA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

Author keywords

A ; Amyloid; Drinking water; Risk; Tau

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN; ZINC;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALUMINUM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRINKING WATER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ZINC;

EID: 84862248661     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: 14401789     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.2011.01274.x     Document Type: Article

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