Cerebellar basket cells of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Immunohistochemical and ultrastructural study

Pathology International

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 291-296

  Yokoo, Hideaki ^a   Isoda, Koji ^a   Yamanouchi, Hideo ^a   Sasaki, Atsushi ^a   Hirato, Junko ^a   Nakazato, Yoichi ^a   Miwa, Yoshihiro ^b  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nanokaichi Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Basket cell; Cerebellum; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Phosphorylated neurofilament; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CRYSTAL VIOLET; HEMATOXYLIN; PARVALBUMIN; PYRONINE; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARGYROPHILIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; MALE; NEUROFILAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME;

AGED; CEREBELLUM; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS;

EID: 0033935571     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1827.2000.01038.x     Document Type: Article

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