Vasculopathy and amyloid β reactivity in brains of patients with acquired immune deficiency (AIDS)

Folia Neuropathologica

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 175-182

  Izycka Świeszewska, Ewa ^a   Zółtowska, Anna ^a   Rzepko, Robert ^a   Gross, Marta ^a   Borowska Lehman, Jolanta ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Amyloid plaques; Axonal damage; HIV AIDS neuropathology; Vascular pathology

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; CD31 ANTIGEN; CONGO RED; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; THIOFLAVINE; UBIQUITIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTERIOLE; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; AXONAL INJURY; BASAL GANGLION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPERTROPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; STAINING; SYMPTOM; VASCULAR FIBROSIS; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0347938637     PISSN: 00283894     EISSN: 1509572X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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