Retinal pathology in Alzheimer's disease. II. Regional neuron loss and glial changes in GCL

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 385-395

  Blanks, Janet C ^a,b   Schmidt, Susan Y ^e   Torigoe, Yasuhiro ^c   Porrello, Kathryn V ^b   Hinton, David R ^d   Blanks, Robert H I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

aging; Alzheimer's disease; displaced amacrine cells; ganglion cells; human retina; neuronal degeneration; retinal whole mounts

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA DEGENERATION;

EID: 0029953186     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0197-4580(96)00009-7     Document Type: Article

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