Argyrophilic grain disease: Frequency of occurrence in different age categories and neuropathological diagnostic criteria

Journal of Neural Transmission

Volumn 105, Issue 8-9, 1998, Pages 801-819

  Braak, H ^a,b   Braak, E ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Department of Anatomy ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Argyrophilic glial inclusions; Argyrophilic grain disease; Argyrophilic grains; Cytoskeletal alterations; Tau protein; Tauopathies

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARGYROPHILIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CYTOSKELETON; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROFILAMENT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SPINDLE CELL; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTROCYTES; BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; OLIGODENDROGLIA; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SILVER STAINING; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0031736575     PISSN: 03009564     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007020050096     Document Type: Article

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