Neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease: What is new since A. Alzheimer?

European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 249, Issue SUPPL. 3, 1999, Pages

  Braak, Eva ^a   Griffing, Katherine ^a   Arai, Kimihito ^a   Bohl, Jürgen ^b   Bratzke, Hansjürgen ^a   Braak, Heiko ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cytoskeletal abnormalities; Neurofibrillary changes; Selective vulnerability; Tau pathology

Indexed keywords

LIPOFUSCIN; MYELIN; NEUROMELANIN; PIGMENT; TAU PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOSKELETON; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPIL THREAD; OLFACTORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0342545937     PISSN: 09401334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/pl00014168     Document Type: Conference Paper

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