Semantic dementia with ubiquitin-positive tau-negative inclusion bodies

Brain

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 267-276

  Rossor, M N ^a,d   Revesz, T ^b   Lantos, P L ^c   Warrington, Elizabeth K ^a  

^a Dementia Research Group   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frontotemporal degeneration; Frontotemporal dementia; Pick's disease; Semantic dementia; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

ADULT; AMNESIA; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CELL INCLUSION; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NERVE CELL; PICK PRESENILE DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0033979070     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/123.2.267     Document Type: Article

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