Enhanced Antigen Retrieval of Amyloid β Immunohistochemistry: Re-evaluation of Amyloid β Pathology in Alzheimer Disease and Its Mouse Model

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 761-769

  Kai, Hideaki ^a   Shin, Ryong Woon ^a   Ogino, Koichi ^b   Hatsuta, Hiroyuki ^c   Murayama, Shigeo ^c   Kitamoto, Tetsuyuki ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^c Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; amyloid ; antigen retrieval; APP SL mouse; autoclave heating; formic acid; immunohistochemistry; minute plaque; PAF method; proteinase K

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; EDETIC ACID; FORMIC ACID; PROTEINASE K; TRYPSIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN RETRIEVAL; ARTICLE; AUTOCLAVE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869770850     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1369/0022155412456379     Document Type: Article

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