No evidence for astrogliosis in brains of schizophrenic patients. A post-mortem study

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-52

  Falkai, P ^a   Honer, W G ^d   David, S ^a   Bogerts, B ^b   Majtenyi, C ^c   Bayer, T A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c National Institute for Nervous and Mental Diseases   (Hungary)

^d NONE

Author keywords

GFAP; Immunohistochemistry; Post mortem; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUBICULUM; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0032993809     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2990.1999.00162.x     Document Type: Article

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