Amyloid and tau: Neither chicken nor egg but two partners in crime!

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 619-621

  Attems, Johannes ^a   Jellinger, Kurt A ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL NEUROBIOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LETTER; LOCUS CERULEUS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 84885476716     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: 14320533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-013-1167-9     Document Type: Letter

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