Alzheimer disease: Evidence for selective loss of cholinergic neurons in the nucleus basalis

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1981, Pages 122-126

  Whitehouse, Peter J ^a   Price, Donald L ^a   Clark, Arthur W ^a   Coyle, Joseph T ^a   DeLong, Mahlon R ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE;

AGE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ETIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PRESENILE DEMENTIA;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BASAL GANGLIA; CELL COUNT; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 0019410162     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410100203     Document Type: Article

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