α-Synuclein accumulates in Lewy bodies in Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies but not in Alzheimer's disease β-amyloid plaque cores

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 266, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 213-216

  Bayer, Thomas A ^a   Jäkälä, Pekka ^b,c   Hartmann, Tobias ^b   Havas, Laszlo ^a,d   McLean, Catriona ^c   Culvenor, Janetta G ^e   Li, Qiao Xin ^e   Masters, Colin L ^e   Falkai, Peter ^a   Beyreuther, Konrad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d National Institute for Nervous and Mental Diseases   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Lewy bodies; Parkinson; Post mortem human brain; Senile plaques

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEWY BODY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEWY BODIES; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PARKINSON DISEASE; SENILE PLAQUES; SYNUCLEINS;

EID: 0344298995     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00311-0     Document Type: Article

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