Alzheimer's disease Braak Stage progressions: Reexamined and redefined as Borrelia infection transmission through neural circuits

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1059-1064

  MacDonald, Alan B ^a  

^a St Catherine of Siena Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; DOPAMINE; SEROTONIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ALZHEIMER NEUROBORRELIOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BORRELIA INFECTION; BRAAK STAGE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN TISSUE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; COGNITION; DERMATOME; DISEASE COURSE; HERPES ZOSTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REMISSION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYNAPSE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

BORRELIA; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 3;

EID: 33847018403     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.09.054     Document Type: Article

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