Patterns of synaptic and nerve cell pathology in Alzheimer's disease

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 9-14

  Lassmann, Hans ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Apoptosis; Necrosis; Nerve cell death; Synapse

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; DNA FRAGMENT;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENILE PLAQUE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

EID: 0029942872     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-4328(95)00215-4     Document Type: Article

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