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Modeling of Hyperphosphorylation of Protein Tau
by Tau Kinases in Brain of Transgenic Mice

By Chris Van Den Haute
October 2001
Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9058671283
128 pages, illustrated
$82.00 paper original

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Contents:

1. Overview of the literature

   1. Protein tau and Alzheimer's disease
      
   2. Protein tau
      
   3. Frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FDTP-17)
   Rationale and Aims
   
2. Materials and methods
   
3. Prominent anxopathy in the brain and spinal cord of transgenic mice overexpressing four-repeat human protein tau
   
4. Glycogen synthase kinase-3B phosphorylates protein tau and rescues the axonopathy in the central nervous system of human four-repeat tau transgenic mice
   
5. Human Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3B causes microcephaly in transgenic mice
   
6. Co-expression of juman cdk-5 and its activator p35 with human protein tau in neurons in brain of triple transgenic mice
   
7. Summary/samenvatting
   
8. References/publications

Doctoral thesis.

Neurology; Medicine
Acta Biomedica Lovaniensia, No. 231