The lateral corticospinal tract and spinal ventral horn in X-linked recessive spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy: A quantitative study

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-6

  Terao, Shin Ichi ^a   Sobue, Gen ^b   Li, Mei ^a,b   Hashizume, Yoshio ^a   Tanaka, Fumiaki ^b   Mitsuma, Terunori ^a  

^a AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alpha motor neuron; Corticospinal tract; Interneuron; Spinal ventral horn cells; X linked recessive spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTERIOR HORN CELL; ARTICLE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RECESSIVE GENE; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY; X CHROMOSOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; GENES, RECESSIVE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030636688     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050575     Document Type: Article

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