Brain bank of the Brazilian aging brain study group - A milestone reached and more than 1,600 collected brains

Cell and Tissue Banking

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 151-162

  Grinberg, Lea Tenenholz ^a   Lucena Ferretti, Renata Eloah ^a   Farfel, José Marcelo ^a   Leite, Renata ^a   Pasqualucci, Carlos Augusto ^a   Rosemberg, Sérgio ^a   Nitrini, Ricardo ^a   Saldiva, Paulo Hilário Nascimento ^a   Jacob Filho, Wilson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's disease; Brainbanking; Dementia; Geriatrics; Neurodegenerative diseases; Neurology; Neuropathology

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; DNA; TAU PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN TRANSPLANTATION; BRAZIL; CADAVER DONOR; CAROTID ARTERY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DNA EXTRACTION; DONOR SELECTION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFORMED CONSENT; ISOLATED HEART; ISOLATED KIDNEY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERIALS HANDLING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ORGAN DONOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RATING SCALE; TISSUE FIXATION;

AGING; ANTIBODIES; BRAIN; BRAZIL; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE BANKS;

EID: 34247574869     PISSN: 13899333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10561-006-9022-z     Document Type: Article

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