Anserine (beta-alanyl-3-methyl-L-histidine) improves neurovascular-unit dysfunction and spatial memory in aged AβPPswe/PSEN1dE9 Alzheimer's-model mice

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Kaneko, Jun ^a   Enya, Akiko ^a   Enomoto, Kota ^a   Ding, Qiong ^a   Hisatsune, Tatsuhiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL-HISTIDINE DIPEPTIDASE; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; ANSERINE; DIPEPTIDASE; PRESENILIN 1; PRESENILIN 1, MOUSE;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; GENETICS; GLIA; HUMAN; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PERICYTE; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ANIMALS; ANSERINE; BRAIN; DIPEPTIDASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; NEUROGLIA; PERICYTES; PRESENILIN-1; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 85030540245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-12785-7     Document Type: Article

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