Aggregation of α-synuclein in Lewy bodies of sporadic Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 879-884

  Baba, Minami ^a   Nakajo, Shigeo ^b   Tu, Pang Hsien ^c   Tomita, Taisuke ^a   Nakaya, Kazuyasu ^b   Lee, Virginia M Y ^c   Trojanowski, John Q ^c   Iwatsubo, Takeshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LEWY BODY; MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BETA-SYNUCLEIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEWY BODIES; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PARKINSON DISEASE; SYNUCLEINS; UBIQUITINS;

EID: 0031941058     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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