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Type: | Thesis |
Title: | Studies on upregulation of amyloid precursor protein in response to traumatic brain injury / Corinna Van Den Heuvel. |
Author: | Van Den Heuvel, Corinna |
Issue Date: | 1999 |
School/Discipline: | Dept. of Pathology |
Abstract: | Traumatic brain injury (TBI) effects neuronal cell bodies (NCBs), axons and dendrites in a complex fashion, producing a spectrum of damage dependent on the initial injury and secondary effects. Accumulation of amyloid precursor (APP) in NSBs and axons is a feature of TBI. This accumulation may be due to impairment of the axonal transport of APP and/or upregulation of APP mRNA synthesis. This thesis hypothesizes that mechanical deformation, which is not severe enough to cause immediate cell death, results in increased APP mRNA and antigen expression as an acute phase response to injury. |
Dissertation Note: | Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Pathology, 1999 |
Subject: | Brain Wounds and injuries. Amyloid beta-protein precursor. |
Description: | Appendum pasted into front end-papers. Bibliography: leaves xiii-xliii. xi, 195, xliii leaves : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm. |
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