Archival, formalin-fixed tissue: Its use in the study of Alzheimer's type changes

Clinical Neuropathology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 45-49

  Dwork, A J ^a,b,c   Liu, D ^a,b   Kaufman, M A ^a,b   Prohovnik, I ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Coll Phys Surgs of Columbia Univ ^*  (United States)

^c Unit 62   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Brain banking; Formalin; Immunohistochemistry; Thioflavine S

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENILE PLAQUE;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; FIXATIVES; FLUORESCENT DYES; FORMALDEHYDE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; OBSERVER VARIATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENILE PLAQUES; THIAZOLES; TISSUE BANKS; UBIQUITINS;

EID: 0031889762     PISSN: 07225091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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