Regulation of age-related structural integrity in neurons by protein with tau-like repeats (PTL-1) is cell autonomous

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chew, Yee Lian ^a   Fan, Xiaochen ^a   Götz, Jürgen ^b   Nicholas, Hannah R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; PTL-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LONGEVITY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGEVITY; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NEURONS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84902096328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05185     Document Type: Article

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