Niemann-Pick type C disease in two affected sisters: Ocular motor recordings and brain-stem neuropathology

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1039, Issue , 2005, Pages 436-445

  Solomon, David ^a,d   Winkelman, A Charles ^b   Zee, David S ^a   Gray, Lawrence ^b   Büttner Ennever, Jean ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Niemann Pick; Supranuclear gaze palsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GAZE PARALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; MEDIAL LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; MOTONEURON; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NIEMANN PICK DISEASE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

EID: 22144436233     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1325.041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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