Immunoreactivity for Bcl-2 protein within neurons in the Alzheimer's disease brain increases with disease severity

Brain Research

Volumn 697, Issue 1-2, 1995, Pages 35-43

  Satou, Takao ^a,b   Cummings, Brian J ^a   Cotman, Carl W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Apoptosis; AT8; Bcl 2; Cell death; Human brain; Immunohistochemistry; Neurofibrillary tangle; Oncogene; PHF 1

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; ONCOGENE BCL2; PAIRED HELICAL FILAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; REFERENCE VALUES; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0028853727     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)00748-F     Document Type: Article

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