Of rodents and men: The mysterious interneuronal pilgrimage of misfolded protein tau in Alzheimer's disease

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 569-577

  Levarska, Lenka ^a   Zilka, Norbert ^a,b   Jadhav, Santosh ^a   Neradil, Peter ^a   Novak, Michal ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NEUROIMMUNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

^b Axon Neuroscience SE ^*  (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; infectivity; neurofibrillary tangles; propagation; spreading; tau protein; tauons

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RODENT; TRANSGENIC RAT;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNEURONS; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; PROTEIN FOLDING; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, TRANSGENIC; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 84892706681     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: 18758908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-131106     Document Type: Article

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