Amyloid pathology in spinal cord of the transgenic alzheimer's disease mice is correlated to the corticospinal tract pathway

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 675-685

  Yuan, Qiuju ^a   Su, Huanxing ^d   Zhang, Yalun ^b   Chau, Wing Hin ^b   Ng, Cheung Toa ^b   Song, You Qiang ^b,d   Huang, Jian Dong ^b   Wu, Wutian ^b,c,e   Lin, Zhi Xiu ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d University of Macau   (Macao)

^e JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amyloid formation; axonal transport; spinal cord; TgCRND8 mice

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID A PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL GRAY MATTER; DISEASE COURSE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84878827600     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: 18758908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-122323     Document Type: Article

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