Intranuclear neuronal inclusions in Huntington's disease and dentatorubral and pallidoluysian atrophy: Correlation between the density of inclusions and IT15 CAG triplet repeat length

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 387-397

  Becher, Mark W ^a   Kotzuk, Joyce A ^a   Sharp, Alan H ^a   Davies, Stephen W ^b   Bates, Gillian P ^c   Price, Donald L ^a   Ross, Christopher A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN BIOPSY; CELL NUCLEUS INCLUSION BODY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORPUS STRIATUM; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

EID: 0031918640     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nbdi.1998.0168     Document Type: Article

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