A variety of glial pathological structures by the modified Gallyas-Braak method

Neuropathology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 133-138

  Arai, Nobutaka ^a,b   Oda, Masaya ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticobasal degeneration; Glial fibrillary tangles; Grumose or foamy spheroid bodies; Modified Gallyas Braak method; Progressive supranuclear palsy; Tau protein

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ARGENTAFFIN CELL; ASTROCYTE; CELL INCLUSION; CELL SHAPE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; GLIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME;

EID: 0029955587     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.1996.tb00168.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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