Enhanced reactivity of Alz-50 antibody in brains of sudden infant death syndrome victims versus brains with lethal hypoxic/ischemic injury. Diagnostic significance after application of the ImmnnoMax technique on routine paraffin material

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 280-286

  Oehmichen, M ^a   Theuerkauf, L ^a   Bajanowski, T ^b   Merz, H ^a   Meissner, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alz 50 antibody; Hypoxic ischemic brain injury; Immunocytochemistry; Sudden infant death syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFANT; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME;

AGE FACTORS; ANOXIA; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; INFANT; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORGAN SIZE; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH;

EID: 0031952119     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050798     Document Type: Article

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