Ultrastructural evidence for altered calcium in motor nerve terminals in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 203-216

  Siklós, László ^a,b   Engelhardt, József ^a,c   Harati, Yadollah ^a   Smith, R Glenn ^a   Joó, Ferenc ^b   Appel, Stanley H ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENERVATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NERVE ENDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHWANN CELL; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BIOPSY; CALCIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLES; NERVE ENDINGS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS;

EID: 0030026832     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410390210     Document Type: Article

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