Immunohistochemical and ultrastructural characterization of ubiquitinated eosinophilic fibrillary neuronal inclusions in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 75-85

  Arima, Kunimasa ^a,c   Ogawa, Masafumi ^b   Sunohara, Nobuhiko ^b   Nishio, Takeshi ^b   Shimomura, Yoko ^a   Hirai, Shigeo ^c   Eto, Komyo ^d  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Autolysosome; Motor cortex; Neuronal inclusion; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CRYSTALLIN; EOSIN; EPITOPE; HEMATOXYLIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARGYROPHILIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CASE REPORT; CELL GRANULE; CELL INCLUSION; CELL SWELLING; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOPLASM; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EOSINOPHIL; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROTUBULE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE FIBER; NEUROFILAMENT; PARIETAL LOBE; PERIKARYON; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SILVER STAINING; TEMPORAL LOBE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLINS; EOSINOPHILS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCLUSION BODIES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEUROFIBRILS; NEURONS; UBIQUITINS;

EID: 0031835184     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050862     Document Type: Article

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