Prion-like acceleration of a synucleinopathy in a transgenic mouse model

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2225-2228

  Mougenot, Anne Laure ^a,b   Nicot, Simon ^a   Bencsik, Anna ^a   Morignat, Eric ^a   Verchère, Jérémy ^a   Lakhdar, Latefa ^a   Legastelois, Stéphane ^b   Baron, Thierry ^a  

^a FRENCH AGENCY FOR FOOD   (France)

^b Indicia Biotechnology   (France)

Author keywords

synuclein; Neurodegeneration; Parkinson's; Prion; Transgenic

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; SERINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRION DISEASES; SERINE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84863433677     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.06.022     Document Type: Article

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