Degeneration of Pick bodies visualized by methenamine-silver staining and immunohistochemistry

Neuropathology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 180-185

  Odawara, Toshinari ^a   Iseki, Eizo ^a   Furukawa, Yoshiko ^a   Suzuki, Kyoko ^a   Hino, Hiroaki ^a   Kosaka, Kenji ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Degeneration process; Glia; Immunohistochemistry; Methenamine silver staining; Pick body; Pick's disease; Tau

Indexed keywords

METHENAMINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL INCLUSION; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROPIL; PICK BODY; PICK PRESENILE DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILVER STAINING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGED; DENTATE GYRUS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCLUSION BODIES; MALE; METHENAMINE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEUROPIL; PICK DISEASE OF THE BRAIN; STAINING AND LABELING; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 0036711289     PISSN: 09196544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1789.2002.00442.x     Document Type: Article

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