The biphasic relationship between regional brain senile plaque and neurofibrillary tangle distributions: Modification by age, sex, and APOE polymorphism

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1019, Issue , 2004, Pages 24-28

  Corder, Elizabeth H ^a   Ghebremedhin, Estifanos ^b   Taylor, Miles G ^a   Thal, Dietmar R ^c   Ohm, Thomas G ^d   Braak, Heiko ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^d HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer disease; Apolipoprotein E; Brain; Gender; Neurofibrillary tangles; Neuropathology; Senile plaques

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN REGION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; SENILE PLAQUE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 3242682466     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1297.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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