Deterioration threshold of synaptic morphology in aging and senile dementia of Alzheimer's type

Analytical and Quantitative Cytology and Histology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 209-213

  Bertoni Freddari, Carlo ^a,c   Fattoretti, Patrizia ^a   Casoli, Tiziana ^a   Caselli, Ugo ^a   Meier Ruge, William ^b  

^a Ital Natl Res Centers on Aging   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c INRCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; synapses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENILE DEMENTIA; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CEREBELLUM; DENTATE GYRUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0030012648     PISSN: 08846812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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