Morphological study of neocortical areas in Rett syndrome

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 50-61

  Belichenko, Pavel V ^a,b   Hagberg, Bengt ^b   Dahlström, Annica ^b  

^a BRAIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Cytoarchitectonics; Epilepsy; Infantile autism; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN CORTEX; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEWY BODY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PATHOLOGY; RETT SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEWY BODIES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; RETT SYNDROME; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 0030639079     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050582     Document Type: Article

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