Argyrophilic grains are not always argyrophilic - Distinction from neurofibrillary tangles of diffuse neurofibrillary tangles with calcification revealed by comparison between Gallyas and Campbell-Switzer methods

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 158-164

  Uchihara, Toshiki ^a   Tsuchiya, Kuniaki ^a,b   Nakamura, Ayako ^a   Akiyama, Haruhiko ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN MATSUZAWA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Argyrophilia; Campbell Switzer; Diagnosis; Gallyas; Pyridine

Indexed keywords

FLUOROCHROME; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; SILVER; TAU PROTEIN; THIAZINE DERIVATIVE; UBIQUITIN;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARGYROPHILIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CALCIFICATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SILVER STAINING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TAUOPATHY; TISSUE SECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; MALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SILVER STAINING; STAINING AND LABELING; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 24344502726     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-005-1031-7     Document Type: Article

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