Evidence for activation of microglia in patients with psychiatric illnesses

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 271, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 126-128

  Bayer, Thomas A ^a   Buslei, Rolf ^a   Havas, Laszlo ^b   Falkai, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Affective disorder; HLA DR; Immunostaining; Post mortem; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MICROGLIA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

AGED; FEMALE; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MICROGLIA; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 0033588276     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00545-5     Document Type: Article

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