Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis of Guam: the nature of the neuropathological findings

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 405-412

  Oyanagi, Kiyomitsu ^a   Makifuchi, Takao ^a   Ohtoh, Takashi ^a   Chen, Kwang Ming ^b   van der Schaaf, Tjeert ^c   Gajdusek, D Carlton ^c   Chase, Thomas N ^c   Ikuta, Fusahiro ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Guam Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Guam Neuropathology; Parkinsonism dementia complex; Quantitative study

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CELL INCLUSION; FRONTAL CORTEX; GUAM; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TOPOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; GUAM; HUMAN; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INCLUSION BODIES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGE; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; PARKINSON DISEASE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TAU PROTEINS; UBIQUITINS;

EID: 0028081824     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: 14320533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00389491     Document Type: Article

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