Ultrastructural characterization of the tau-immunoreactive tubules in the oligodendroglial perikarya and their inner loop processes in progressive supranuclear palsy

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 558-566

  Arima, Kunimasa ^a,b   Nakamura, Minako ^a   Sunohara, Nobuhiko ^b   Ogawa, Masafumi ^b   Anno, Midori ^c   Izumiyama, Yoko ^a   Hirai, Shigeo ^a,b   Ikeda, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN MATSUZAWA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coiled bodies; Interfascicular threads; Oligodendroglia; Progressive supranuclear palsy; Tau protein

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICROTUBULE; MYELIN SHEATH; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCLUSION BODIES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OLIGODENDROGLIA; SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY, PROGRESSIVE; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0030916610     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050652     Document Type: Article

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