Synaptic Contacts Enhance Cell-to-Cell Tau Pathology Propagation

Cell Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1176-1183

  Calafate, Sara ^a,b,c   Buist, Arjan ^a   Miskiewicz, Katarzyna ^b,c   Vijayan, Vinoy ^b,c   Daneels, Guy ^a   de Strooper, Bart ^b,c   de Wit, Joris ^b,c   Verstreken, Patrik ^b,c   Moechars, Diederik ^a  

^a JANSSEN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN 2; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NEUREXIN; NEUROLIGIN; NEUROLIGIN 1; NEUROLIGIN 2; NEUROLIGIN 3; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SYNAPSIN; TETRODOTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TAU PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOASSAY; CELL INTERACTION; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; EMBRYO; GENE SILENCING; HEK293 CELL LINE; HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONAL CULTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; MINI CIRCUIT ASSAY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NERVE CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC CONTACT; TAUOPATHY; ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; DISEASE COURSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HEK293 CELLS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPSES; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES;

EID: 84929951298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.04.043     Document Type: Article

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