Demonstration and distribution of tau-positive glial coiled body-like structures in white matter and white matter threads in early onset Alzheimer's disease

Neuropathology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-12

  Umahara, Takahiko ^a   Tsuchiya, Kuniaki ^b   Ikeda, Kenzi ^c   Kanaya, Kiyoshi ^a   Iwamoto, Toshihiko ^a   Takasaki, Masharu ^a   Mukai, Kiyoshi ^a   Shibata, Noriyuki ^d   Kato, Shinsuke ^e  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN MATSUZAWA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early onset Alzheimer's disease; Glial coiled bodies; Tau protein; White matter; White matter threads

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GLIA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEWY BODY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPIL; ONSET AGE; PAIRED HELICAL FILAMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; CELL INCLUSION; CHEMISTRY; GLIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

AGE OF ONSET; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; HUMAN; INCLUSION BODIES; MIDDLE AGE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEUROGLIA; TAU PROTEINS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036001443     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0919-6544.2002.00422.x     Document Type: Article

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