Regressive changes of astroglia in white matter lesions in cerebrovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease patients

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 146-152

  Tomimoto, Hidekazu ^a   Akiguchi, Ichiro ^a   Wakita, Hideaki ^a   Suenaga, Toshihiko ^b   Nakamura, Shinichi ^a   Kimura, Jun ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TENRI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Astroglia; Cerebrovascular disease; Clasmatodendrosis; White matter lesions

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3D; CRYSTALLIN; EOSIN; FIBRINOGEN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HEMATOXYLIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LAMININ; PLASMA PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL INCLUSION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHROMATIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOCHEMISTRY; EDEMA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYSOSOME; MACROGLIA; MICROGLIA; MORPHOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PERIKARYON; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ASTROCYTES; BLOOD PROTEINS; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GOLD COLLOID, RADIOACTIVE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROGLIA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0030743989     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050686     Document Type: Article

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