Microwave treatment enhances the immunostaining of amyloid deposits in both the transmissible and non-transmissible brain amyloidoses

Neurodegeneration

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 95-99

  Liberski, Pawel P ^a,b   Yanagihara, Richard ^a   Brown, Paul ^a   Kordek, Radzislaw ^b   Kloszewska, Iwona ^b   Bratosiewicz, Jolanta ^b   Gajdusek, D Carleton ^a,c  

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

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloid; Immunohistochemistry; Microwave

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; FORMIC ACID;

AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SECTION;

EID: 0029878472     PISSN: 10558330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/neur.1996.0013     Document Type: Article

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