Argyrophilic glial inclusions in the midbrain of patients with Parkinson's disease and diffuse Lewy body disease are immunopositive for NACP/α-synuclein

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 83-86

  Arai, Tetsuaki ^a   Uéda, Kenji ^a   Ikeda, Kenji ^a   Akiyama, Haruhiko ^a   Haga, Chie ^a   Kondo, Hiromi ^a   Kuroki, Noriomi ^b   Niizato, Kazuhiro ^b   Iritani, Shuji ^b   Tsuchiya, Kuniaki ^b  

^a Inst Psychiat S   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN MATSUZAWA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aggregate; Glial cytoplasmic inclusion; Immunohistochemistry; Multiple system atrophy; Oligodendroglia; Tau

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

AGED; ARGYROPHILIA; ARTICLE; CELL INCLUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEWY BODY; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CYTOPLASM; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCLUSION BODIES; MESENCEPHALON; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; SYNUCLEINS;

EID: 0344286506     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00890-8     Document Type: Article

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