Argyrophilic tan-positive twisted and non-twisted tubules in astrocytic processes in brains of Alzheimer-type dementia: An electron microscopical study

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 28-39

  Arima, Kunimasa ^a,b   Izumiyama, Yoko ^a   Nakamura, Minako ^a   Nakayama, Hiroshi ^c   Kimura, Michihiro ^b   Ando, Susumu ^b   Ikeda, Kazuhiko ^a   Takahashi, Kiyohisa ^b  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer type dementia; Astrocytes; Electron microscopy; Glial fibrillary tangles; Tau protein

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BRAIN; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROTUBULE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SILVER STAINING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; MIDDLE AGED; SILVER STAINING; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0031600650     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050762     Document Type: Article

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