How well does the CSF inform upon pathology in the brain in Creutzfeldt-Jakob and Alzheimer's diseases?

Journal of Pathology

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-3

  Weller, Roy O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

amyloid; Alzheimer's disease; Cerebral amyloid angiopathy; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; CSF; Dementia; Interstitial fluid; Prion protein; Transmissible spongiform encephalophaty

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; BRAIN PEPTIDE; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; TRACER;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; EDITORIAL; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INTERCELLULAR SPACE; INTERSTITIAL FLUID; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARENCHYMA; PATHOLOGY; PIA MATER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLUBILITY; SPINAL CORD; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; HUMANS; PRIONS;

EID: 0035028601     PISSN: 00223417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1096-9896(200105)194:1<1::AID-PATH871>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Editorial

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