Expression of nestin in Purkinje cells in patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 352, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 109-112

  Mizuno, Yuji ^a   Takeuchi, Toshiyuki ^b   Takatama, Masamitsu ^c   Okamoto, Koichi ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GERIATRICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Creutzfeldt Jakob disease; Intermediate filament protein; Multiple system atrophy; Nestin; Purkinje cell

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; NESTIN; NESTIN ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; CYTOPLASM; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DENDRITE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PURKINJE CELL; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME;

EID: 0242391719     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.08.056     Document Type: Article

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