Involvement of medullary regions controlling sympathetic output in Lewy body disease

Brain

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 338-344

  Benarroch, Eduardo E ^a   Schmeichel, Ann M ^a   Low, Phillip A ^a   Boeve, Bradley F ^a   Sandroni, Paola ^a   Parisi, Joseph E ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic failure; Raphe; Synucleinopathy; Ventrolateral medulla

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE NERVE CELL; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEWY BODY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEOCORTEX; NEURITE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPATHY; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE NUCLEUS; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SHY DRAGER SYNDROME; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; SYMPTOM; VENTROLATERAL MEDULLA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION, ORTHOSTATIC; LEWY BODIES; LEWY BODY DISEASE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY; RAPHE NUCLEI; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 13544265328     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh376     Document Type: Article

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