Practical measures to simplify the Braak tangle staging method for routine pathological screening

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 199-208

  Harding, Antony J ^a   Kril, Jillian J ^b   Halliday, Glenda M ^a  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Diagnosis; Entorhinal cortex; Hippocampus; Neurofibrillary tangles

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEWY BODY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILVER STAINING; STAINING; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033950447     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00007425     Document Type: Article

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