Neuropathology with clinical correlations of sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: 102 Autopsy cases examined between 1962 and 2000

Brain Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 10-22

  Piao, Yue Shan ^a   Wakabayashi, Koichi ^c   Kakita, Akiyoshi ^a   Yamada, Mitsunori ^a   Hayashi, Shintaro ^a   Morita, Takashi ^b   Ikuta, Fusahiro ^c   Oyanagi, Kiyomitsu ^c   Takahashi, Hitoshi ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Shinrakuen Hospital   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURITE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; ONSET AGE; PATHOGENESIS;

EID: 0037251889     PISSN: 10156305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3639.2003.tb00002.x     Document Type: Article

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