Neurotransmitter-related enzymes and indices of hypoxia in senile dementia and other abiotrophies

Brain

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 1976, Pages 459-496

  Bowen, David M ^a   Smith, Carolyn B ^a   White, Pamela ^a   Davison, Alan N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ENZYME; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS; ETIOLOGY; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPOXIA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; ANOXIA; BRAIN DISEASES; BRONCHOPNEUMONIA; CARBOXY-LYASES; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DEMENTIA; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; MIDDLE AGE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROTRANSMITTERS; ORGAN WEIGHT; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0017133142     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/99.3.459     Document Type: Article

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