Post-mortem brain tissue cultures from elderly control subjects and patients with a neurodegenerative disease

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 38, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 167-172

  Verwer, R W H ^a   Baker, R E ^a   Boiten, E F M ^a   Dubelaar, E J G ^a   Van Ginkel, C J M ^a   Sluiter, A A ^a   Swaab, D F ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's disease; Energy metabolism; Human brain; Tissue culture

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL AGING; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE CULTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL COUNT; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENERGY METABOLISM; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS; PARKINSON DISEASE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037244353     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(02)00154-7     Document Type: Article

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