Pitfalls in the quantitative estimation of α-amyloid immunoreactivity in human brain tissue

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 439-445

  Kraszpulski, Michal ^a   Soininen, Hilkka ^a,b   Riekkinen Sr , Paavo ^a   Alafuzoff, Irina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; FORMIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SENILE PLAQUE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; FORMIC ACIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0031780444     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004180050305     Document Type: Article

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