Evidence for accelerated tauopathy in the retina of transgenic P301S tau mice exposed to repetitive mild traumatic brain injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 273, Issue , 2015, Pages 168-176

  Xu, Leyan ^a   Ryu, Jiwon ^a   Nguyen, Judy V ^a   Arena, John ^a   Rha, Elizabeth ^a   Vranis, Pamela ^a   Hitt, Devon ^a   Marsh Armstrong, Nicholas ^a,b   Koliatsos, Vassilis E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KENNEDY KRIEGER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Concussion; CTE; Diffuse axonal injury; Retina; Tau; Traumatic axonal injury

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; TAU PROTEIN; TAU PS422 PROTIEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GAMMA SYNUCLEIN; PROLINE; SERINE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; HEREDITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INJURY SEVERITY; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA GANGLION CELL; TAUOPATHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURY; C57BL MOUSE; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATHOLOGY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RETINA; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; CELL COUNT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GAMMA-SYNUCLEIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; PROLINE; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SERINE; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84940390998     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2015.08.014     Document Type: Article

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