Synaptic pathology in Alzheimer's disease: Relation to severity of dementia, but not to senile plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, or the ApoE4 allele

Journal of Neural Transmission

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 603-618

  Blennow, K ^a,d   Bogdanovic, N ^b   Alafuzoff, I ^c   Ekman, R ^a   Davidsson, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease (AD); Apolipoprotein E (apoE); Dementia; Neurofibrillary tangles; rab3a; Senile plaques; Synapses

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INHERITANCE; MALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RISK FACTOR; SENILE PLAQUE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; RAB3 GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 0029801332     PISSN: 03009564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01273157     Document Type: Article

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