Immunoreactive epidermal growth factor receptors in neurItic plaques from patients with alzheimer’s disease

Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1988, Pages 549-560

  Birecree, Elizabeth ^a   Whetsell, William O ^a   Stoscheck, Christa ^a   King, Lloyd E ^a   Nanney, Lillian B ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer s disease; Epidermal growth factor; Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP); Growth factors; Neuritic plaques; Paired helical filaments (PHF)

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL; PAIRED HELICAL FILAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENILE PLAQUE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SERA; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MIDDLE AGE; NEURONS; RECEPTOR, EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0023736761     PISSN: 00223069     EISSN: 15546578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005072-198809000-00006     Document Type: Article

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