Granules in glial cells of patients with Alzheimer's disease are immunopositive for C-terminal sequences of β-amyloid protein

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 206, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 169-172

  Akiyama, Haruhiko ^a   Schwab, Claudia ^b   Kondo, Hiromi ^a   Mori, Hiroshi ^a   Kametani, Fuyuki ^a   Ikeda, Kenji ^a   McGeer, Patrick L ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Astrocytes; Immunohistochemistry; Microglia; Phagocytosis; Proteolysis; Amyloid protein (A )

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROGLIA; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030003487     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(96)12474-5     Document Type: Article

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