Extrapyramidal features in patients with motor neuron disease and dementia; a clinicopathological correlative study

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 336-340

  Mackenzie, Ian R ^a   Feldman, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Dementia; Extrapyramidal; Motor neuron disease; Parkinsonism

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; TAU PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL INCLUSION; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DYSTROPHY; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GLIOSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NEOCORTEX; NEURITE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEMENTIA; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCLUSION BODIES; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SYNUCLEINS; TAU PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 1842638333     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-003-0814-y     Document Type: Article

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