Fatal attractions: Abnormal protein aggregation and neuron death in Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 832-837

  Trojanowski, John Q ^a   Goedert, Michel ^b   Iwatsubo, Takeshi ^c   Lee, Virginia M Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dementia; Lewy bodies; Neurofilaments; Parkinson's disease; Synuclein

Indexed keywords

NERVE PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; HUMAN; LEWY BODY; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROFILAMENT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0031762949     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4400432     Document Type: Review

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