Krabbe disease: An ultrastructural study of globoid cells and reactive astrocytes at the brain and optic nerves

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 155-162

  Jesionek Kupnicka, Dorota ^a   Majchrowska, Anna ^a,b   Krawczyk, Jolanta ^b   Wendorff, Janusz ^b   Barcikowska, Maria ^c   Łukaszek, Stanisław ^b   Liberski, Paweł P ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b POLISH MOTHER S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Globoid cells; Immunohistochemistry; Krabbe disease; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BIOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; CYTOPLASM; FATALITY; GLOBOID CELL LEUKODYSTROPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MALE; OPTIC NERVE; PATHOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ASTROCYTES; BIOPSY; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CYTOPLASM; FATAL OUTCOME; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; LEUKODYSTROPHY, GLOBOID CELL; MALE; OPTIC NERVE;

EID: 0031313374     PISSN: 00283894     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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