Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Immunocytochemical studies and image analysis

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 2-9

  Nailon, William H ^a   Ironside, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Image analysis; Immunocytochemistry; Prion protein

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; HISTOLOGY; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS; PRASEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS; TISSUE;

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS; CLINICAL FEATURES; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE; IMAGE-ANALYSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMICAL STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOID TISSUE; PRION DISEASE; PRION PROTEIN;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ISOPROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOID TISSUE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SENSORY GANGLION;

EID: 0034234413     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0029(20000701)50:1<2::AID-JEMT2>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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