Absence of neurodegeneration in the thalamus and caudate of elderly patients with schizophrenia

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 103-110

  Falke, Eric ^a   Han, Li Ying ^a   Arnold, Steven E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b 142 Clinical Research Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Astrocyte; Microglia; Neurofibrillary tangle; Postmortem

Indexed keywords

CHLORDANE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MARKER;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; AUTOPSY; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROGLIA; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE INJURY; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEURONS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; THALAMUS;

EID: 0034611066     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(00)00104-9     Document Type: Article

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