Midkine-like immunoreactivity in extracellular neurofibrillary tangles in brains of patients with parkinsonism-dementia complex of Guam

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 107-110

  Yasuhara, Osamu ^a,c   Schwab, Claudia ^a   Matsuo, Akinori ^a   Kim, Seung U ^a   Steele, John C ^b   Akiguchi, Ichiro ^c   Kimura, Jun ^c   McGeer, Edith G ^a   McGeer, Patrick L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Guam Memorial Hospital   (Guam)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Immunohistochemistry; Lytico bodig disease; Midkine; Neurofibrillary tangles; Amyloid protein

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; MIDKINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030040273     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12385-5     Document Type: Article

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