Dementia of the Alzheimer type and related dementias in the aged: DAT subgroups and senile dementia of the neurofibrillary tangle type

Neuropathology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 89-98

  Yamada, Masahito ^a   Itoh, Yoshinori ^b   Otomo, Eiichi ^b   Suematsu, Naomi ^b   Matsushita, Masaaki ^c  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Yokufukai Geriatric Hospital   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aged; Apolipoprotein E; Cerebral amyloid angiopathy; Dementia of the alzheimer type; Neurofibrillary tangle; Senile dementia; Senile plaque

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

AGED; ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHOMETRICS; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENILE DEMENTIA; SENILE PLAQUE; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS;

EID: 0030015162     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1789.1996.tb00162.x     Document Type: Article

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