Amyloid plaque formation precedes dendritic spine loss

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 797-807

  Bittner, Tobias ^a   Burgold, Steffen ^a   Dorostkar, Mario M ^a   Fuhrmann, Martin ^b   Wegenast Braun, Bettina M ^b,c   Schmidt, Boris ^d   Kretzschmar, Hans ^a   Herms, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Amyloid plaque; Dendritic spines; Kinetics; Structural plasticity; Two photon in vivo imaging

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PLAQUE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL FATE; CELL KINETICS; CELL LOSS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; IN VIVO STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; MICROSCOPY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DENDRITIC SPINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PLAQUE, AMYLOID; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84878351215     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: 14320533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-012-1047-8     Document Type: Article

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