Anti-inflammatory drugs in the fight against Alzheimer's disease

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 777, Issue , 1996, Pages 213-220

  McGeer, P L ^a   McGeer, E G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; COMPLEMENT; COMPLEMENT MEMBRANE ATTACK COMPLEX; COMPLEMENT RECEPTOR; DAPSONE; INDOMETACIN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTHRITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEPROSY; MORBIDITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY BURST; SENILE PLAQUE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0029917887     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1996.tb34421.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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