Parkinson's disease: an immunohistochemical study of Lewy body-containing neurons in the enteric nervous system

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1990, Pages 581-583

  Wakabayashi, K ^a   Takahashi, H ^a   Ohama, E ^a   Ikuta, F ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Enteric nervous system; Immunohistochemistry; Lewy body; Parkinson's disease; Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide

Indexed keywords

SOMATOSTATIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LEWY BODY; NERVE CELL; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHOMBENCEPHALON;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCLUSION BODIES; MALE; NEUROPEPTIDES; PARKINSON DISEASE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0025346316     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: 14320533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00294234     Document Type: Article

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