Cholinergic neuronal loss in the basal forebrain and mesopontine tegmentum of progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 117-124

  Kasashima, Satomi ^a   Oda, Yoshio ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticobasal degeneration; Laterodorsal tegmental nucleus; Nucleus basalis of Meynert; Pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus; Progressive supranuclear palsy

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GLIA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MEYNERT BASAL NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; REVIEW; TEGMENTUM; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEURONS; SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY, PROGRESSIVE; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI;

EID: 0037741040     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-002-0621-x     Document Type: Review

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