Decrease of neurons in the medullary arcuate nucleus of multiple system atrophy: Quantitative comparison with Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 89-91

  Noda, Kouichi ^a   Katayama, Sadao ^a   Watanabe, Chigusa ^a   Yamamura, Yasuhiro ^a   Nakamura, Shigenobu ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Medullary arcuate nucleus; Multiple system atrophy; Parkinson's disease; Quantitative study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CARDIOVASCULAR AUTOREGULATION; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSAUTONOMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; OLIVOPONTOCEREBELLAR ATROPHY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY; NEURONS; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 0030923398     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-510X(97)00101-9     Document Type: Article

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