Neuroaxonal pathology in Creutzfeldt-Jakok disease

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 329-334

  Liberski, Pawel P ^a   Budka, Herbert ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Neuroaxonal dystrophy; Prion diseases; Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

Indexed keywords

NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL LABELING; CELL SWELLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE FIBER; NEURITE; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR SPHEROID; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; CELL SIZE; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROGLIA; MIDDLE AGED; NEURITES; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURONS; VACUOLES;

EID: 0033048202     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050995     Document Type: Article

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