Nerve cell loss in the thalamic mediodorsal nucleus in Huntington's disease

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 613-622

  Heinsen, Helmut ^a   Rüb, Udo ^a,h   Bauer, Manfred ^b   Ulmar, Gerd ^b   Bethke, Birgitt ^c   Schüler, Michael ^d   Böcker, Felix ^d   Eisenmenger, Wolfgang ^e   Götz, Monika ^f   Korr, Hubert ^g   Schmitz, Christoph ^g  

^a Morphologische Hirnforschung P   (Germany)

^b Psychiatrisches Landeskrankenhaus   (Germany)

^c Institut fur Pathologie   (Germany)

^d Nervenkrankenhaus Bezirks O   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f Institut für Pathologie   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^h GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human brain; Myeloarchitectonic; Nerve cell number; Optical disector; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MACROGLIA; MALE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS;

ADULT; AGED; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0345465664     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010051037     Document Type: Article

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