Nigral and cortical Lewy bodies and dystrophic nigral neurites in Parkinson's disease and cortical Lewy body disease contain α-synuclein immunoreactivity

Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 334-337

  Irizarry, Michael C ^a   Growdon, Whitfield ^a   Gomez Isla, Teresa ^a   Newell, Kathy ^a   George, Julia M ^b   Clayton, David F ^b   Hyman, Bradley T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Lewy body; NACP; Neurite; Parkinson's disease; Substantia nigra; Synelfin; Synuclein

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LEWY BODY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 0031944830     PISSN: 00223069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005072-199804000-00005     Document Type: Article

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