The amino-terminally truncated forms of amyloid β-protein in brain macrophages in the ischemic lesions of Alzheimer's disease patients

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 115-118

  Akiyama, Haruhiko ^a   Kondo, Hiromi ^a   Mori, Hiroshi ^a   Kametani, Fuyuki ^a   Nishimura, Toru ^a   Ikeda, Kenji ^a   Kato, Masanori ^b   McGeer, Patrick L ^c  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Soga Hospital   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Degradation; Immunohistochemistry; Infarct; Microglia; Phagocytosis; Removal

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MICROGLIA; NERVE DEGENERATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGES; MALE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHAGOCYTOSIS;

EID: 0030598393     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(96)13197-9     Document Type: Article

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