Age, neurofibrillary changes, Aβ-amyloid and the onset of Alzheimer's disease

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 87-90

  Braak, Heiko ^a,c   Braak, Eva ^a   Bohl, Jürgen ^b   Reintjes, Ralf ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Department of Anatomy ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's disease; A amyloid; Neurofibrillary change; Neuronal cytoskeleton

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NEUROFILAMENT; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029975481     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12668-9     Document Type: Article

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