N-truncated Abeta starting with position four: Early intraneuronal accumulation and rescue of toxicity using NT4X-167, a novel monoclonal antibody

Acta Neuropathologica Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Antonios, Gregory ^a   Saiepour, Nasrin ^a,b   Bouter, Yvonne ^a   Richard, Bernhard C ^a,b   Paetau, Anders ^c   Verkkoniemi Ahola, Auli ^c   Lannfelt, Lars ^b,d   Ingelsson, Martin ^b,d   Kovacs, Gabor G ^e   Pillot, Thierry ^f   Wirths, Oliver ^a   Bayer, Thomas A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b U4 Graduate School   (Germany)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f Synaging SAS   (France)

Author keywords

5XFAD; Abeta 4 40; Abeta 4 42; Abeta oligomer; Arctic; Familial alzheimer's disease; Presenilin 1; Pyroglutamate abeta; Sporadic alzheimer's disease; Swedish; Toxicity; Transgenic mouse model

Indexed keywords

EID: 85005846709     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20515960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2051-5960-1-56     Document Type: Article

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