Phospho-Tau Protein Expression in the Cell Cycle of SH-SY5Y Neuroblastoma Cells : A Morphological Study

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Authors want to express their gratitude to Dr. P. Davies (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA); Lester I. Binder † (North Western, Chicago, IL, USA) for the generous gift of mAbs (TG-3, Alz-50) and (Tau-1, Tau-5, Tau-7), respectively; Tec. Amparo Viramontes Pintos for the handling of the brain tissue; M. en C. Samadhi Moreno-Campuzano for her technical assistance; M en C.J. Ivan Galvan for his support in confocal microscopy, and the confocal microscopy unit of Laboratorio Nacional de Servicios Experimentales (LaNSE), CINVESTAV. We also want to express our gratitude to the Mexican families who donated brains of loved ones affected with Alzheimer’s disease, and made our research possible. This work is dedicated to the memory of Professor Dr. Jose Raul Mena Lopez †. This work was financially supported by CONACyT grants, No. 142293 (to R.M.), 266492 (I.V-F), 239516 (J.S) and the Mancera-Resendiz family.