Frequent coexistence of Lewy bodies and neurofibrillary tangles in the same neurons of patients with diffuse Lewy body disease

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 265, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 9-12

  Iseki, Eizo ^a   Marui, Wami ^a   Kosaka, Kenji ^a   Uéda, Kenji ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Synuclein; Diffuse Lewy body disease; Immunohistochemistry; Lewy body; Neurofibrillary tangle; Paired helical filament; Tau

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEWY BODY; LIMBIC CORTEX; LOCUS CERULEUS; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PAIRED HELICAL FILAMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENILE DEMENTIA; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEWY BODIES; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEURONS; PARKINSON DISEASE; SYNUCLEINS; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0033537922     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00178-0     Document Type: Article

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