Ballooned neurons expressing αB-crystallin as a constant feature of the amygdala in argyrophilic grain disease

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 246, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 165-168

  Tolnay, Markus ^a   Probst, Alphonse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

B crystallin; Amygdala; Argyrophilic grain disease; Ballooned neurons; Tau protein

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BETA CRYSTALLIN; TAU PROTEIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARGYROPHILIA; ARTICLE; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MICROTUBULE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NERVE DEGENERATION; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYGDALA; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CRYSTALLINS; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SILVER STAINING; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0032502593     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00250-X     Document Type: Article

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