Astrocytes expressing hyperphosphorylated tau protein without glial fibrillary tangles in argyrophilic grain disease

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 251-256

  Botez, G ^a   Probst, A ^a   Ipsen, S ^a   Tolnay, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Argyophilic grain disease; Astrocytes; Glial fibrillary tangles; Hyperphosphorylated tau protein

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HERMES ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PARAFFIN; TAU PROTEIN;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARGYROPHILIA; ARGYROPHILIC GRAIN DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GLIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPIL; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SENESCENCE; STELLATE CELL; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYGDALA; ANTIGENS, CD44; ASTROCYTES; CELL SIZE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SILVER STAINING; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0032862488     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010051077     Document Type: Article

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