A clinical and neuropathological study of an unusual case of sporadic tauopathy. A variant of corticobasal degeneration?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 330, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 84-88

  Ohara, Shinji ^a   Tsuyuzaki, Jun ^a   Oide, Takashi ^a   Arai, Hiroyuki ^b   Higuchi, Susumu ^c   Hasegawa, Masato ^d   Iwatsubo, Takeshi ^e  

^a Matsumoto Hospital   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KURIHAMA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid; Corticobasal degeneration; Parkinsonism; Subcortical dementia; Tau

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; ISOPROTEIN; LEVODOPA; SERINE; TAU PROTEIN; THREO 3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLSERINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EXON; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE MUTATION; GLIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TAUOPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES;

EID: 0037072557     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00616-X     Document Type: Article

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