Responses to donepezil in Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 977, Issue , 2002, Pages 493-500

  Mori, Satoru ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB); Donepezil; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; DONEPEZIL; GALANTAMINE; RIVASTIGMINE; TACRINE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HUMAN; LEWY BODY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0036447719     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb04856.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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