Melanized nigral neuronal numbers in Nigerian and British individuals

Movement Disorders

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1239-1241

  Muthane, Uday B ^a   Chickabasaviah, Yasha T ^a   Henderson, Jasmine ^b   Kingsbury, Ann E ^c   Kilford, Linda ^c   Shankar, Susarla K ^a   Subbakrishna, D K ^a   Lees, Andrew J ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Etiopathogenesis; Neuromelanin; Neuronal counts; Substantia nigra

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEGRO; NIGERIA; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; CELL COUNT; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MELANINS; NEURONS; NIGERIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; REFERENCE VALUES; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 33748337333     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.20917     Document Type: Article

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