Familial motor neurone disease with dementia: Phenotypic variation and cerebellar pathology

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1516-1520

  Polvikoski, T M ^a   Murray, A ^a   Harper, P S ^a   Neal, J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; EOSIN; FAST BLUE; HEMATOXYLIN; TAU PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMENTIA; DENDRITE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NEUROFILAMENT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0242693882     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.74.11.1516     Document Type: Article

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