α-synuclein immunoreactivity in dementia with Lewy bodies: Morphological staging and comparison with ubiquitin immunostaining

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 352-357

  Gómez Tortosa, Estrella ^a   Newell, Kathy ^a   Irizarry, Michael C ^a   Sanders, Judith L ^a   Hyman, Bradley T ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dementia; Lewy bodies; Parkinson's disease; Ubiquitin; synuclein

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; UBIQUITIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INSULA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEWY BODY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEOCORTEX; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 0343527226     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010051135     Document Type: Article

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