Filamentous α-synuclein inclusions link multiple system atrophy with Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 251, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 205-208

  Grazia Spillantini, Maria ^a   Anthony Crowther, R ^b   Jakes, Ross ^b   Cairns, Nigel J ^c   Lantos, Peter L ^c   Goedert, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dementia with Lewy bodies; Multiple system atrophy; Olivopontocerebellar atrophy; Parkinson's disease; Shy Drager syndrome; Striatonigral degeneration; Synuclein

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; CELL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL INCLUSION; DEMENTIA; GLIA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LEWY BODY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME;

EID: 0032584686     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00504-7     Document Type: Article

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