Aβ42-carboxy-terminal-like immunoreactivity is associated with intracellular neurofibrillary tangles and pick bodies

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 527-534

  Schwab, C ^a   McGeer, P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Elderly controls; Hippocampus; Immunostaining; Parkinsonism dementia complex of Guam; Pick disease; Progressive supranuclear palsy; Substantia nigra; 42 amyloid

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PARKINSONISM; PICK PRESENILE DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN (1 42); AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN (1-42); PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEURONS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PICK DISEASE OF THE BRAIN; REFERENCE VALUES; SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY, PROGRESSIVE;

EID: 0033621754     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1999.7307     Document Type: Article

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