Profound loss of layer II entorhinal cortex neurons occurs in very mild Alzheimer's disease

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 4491-4500

  Gómez Isla, Teresa ^a   Price, Joseph L ^b   McKeel Jr , Daniel W ^b   Morris, John C ^b   Growdon, John H ^a   Hyman, Bradley T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; Alzheimer's disease; entorhinal cortex; neuronal loss; perforant pathway; stereology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; EFFERENT NERVE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029979798     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-14-04491.1996     Document Type: Article

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