Progressive age-related cognitive decline in tau mice

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 777-788

  Van Der Jeugd, Ann ^a   Vermaercke, Ben ^a,b,c   Lo, Adrian C ^a   Hamdane, Malika ^b,c   Blum, David ^b,c,d   Buée, Luc ^b,c,d   D'Hooge, Rudi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c JEAN PIERRE AUBERT RESEARCH CENTER   (France)

^d LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

aging; learning; memory; tauopathy; transgenic model

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGING; LEARNING; MEMORY; TAUOPATHY; TRANSGENIC MODEL;

AGING; ANIMALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHOSPHORYLATION; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 84892754361     PISSN: 13872877     EISSN: 18758908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-130110     Document Type: Article

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