Primary progressive aphasia as the initial manifestation of corticobasal degeneration and unusual tauopathies

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 419-435

  Ferrer, I ^a,b   Hernandez I ^c,d   Boada, M ^c,e   Llorente, A ^c   Rey, M J ^b   Cardozo, A ^b   Ezquerra, M ^b   Puig, B ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Institut Catala de Neurociencies Aplicades   (Spain)

^d ICS   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

Synuclein; Argyrophilic grain disease; Corticobasal degeneration; Primary progressive aphasia; Tauopathy

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; SERINE; TAU PROTEIN; THREONINE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APRAXIA; ASTROCYTE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CELL INCLUSION; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DEMENTIA; DIENCEPHALON; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GLIA CELL; HAND DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAUOPATHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN B CHAIN; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; ASTROCYTES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEURONS; STAINING AND LABELING; SYNUCLEINS; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0142124410     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-003-0756-4     Document Type: Review

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