Postmortem diagnosis of brain disorders. The histochemical detection of glycoconjugate deposition with lectins

Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages

  Nishimura, Akiyoshi ^a   Sawada, Sono ^a   Ushiyama, Ikuko ^a   Tanegashima, Akio ^b   Nakagawa, Tokiko ^a   Ikemoto, Keiko ^c   Yamamoto, Yoshio ^a   Satoh, Keiji ^d   Rand, Steven ^e   Brinkmann, Bernd ^e   Nishi, Katsuji ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d Maple Clinic   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer type dementia; Degenerative changes in the white matter of the brain; Down's syndrome; Glycoconjugates; Lectin histochemical staining; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; ALCIAN BLUE; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID P COMPONENT; BIOTIN; EOSIN; FUCHSINE; GLYCOCONJUGATE; GLYCOSIDASE; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; HEMATOXYLIN; LECTIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PEROXIDASE; ULEX EUROPAEUS AGGLUTININ;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN TISSUE; CANAVALIA; CONJUGATION; DOLICHOS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHRINA; GLYCOGEN METABOLISM; GRIFFONIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PEA; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENILE PLAQUE; ULEX EUROPAEUS;

EID: 2342547682     PISSN: 09728074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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