Astroglial Tangles in the Hippocampus of Two Patients with Down Syndrome and Alzheimer Neuropathology: To the Editor Ultrastructural Pathology

Ultrastructural Pathology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 161-163

  Ceuterick, Chantal ^a   Lübke, Ursula ^a   Cras, Patrick ^a   Martin, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

UBIQUITIN;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ASTROCYTE; CHEMISTRY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LETTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PATHOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ASTROCYTES; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; UBIQUITINS;

EID: 0032013759     PISSN: 01913123     EISSN: 15210758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01913129809032272     Document Type: Article

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