Filamentous nerve cell inclusions in neurodegenerative diseases: Tauopathies and α-synucleinopathies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 354, Issue 1386, 1999, Pages 1101-1118

  Goedert, Michel ^a  

^a Med Res Cncl Lab of Molec B   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Frontotemporal dementia; Lewy body diseases; Multiple system atrophy; Tau protein; synuclein

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033614777     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0466     Document Type: Article

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