Tales of pacific tangles: Cycad exposure and Guamanian neurodegenerative diseases

Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 1759-1761

  Friedland, Robert P ^a   Armon, Carmel ^b,c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 3 METHYLAMINOPROPIONIC ACID; TAU PROTEIN;

ADULTHOOD; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CHILDHOOD; CHRONIC TOXICITY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CYCAD CIRCINALIS; CYCAD FLOUR; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FLOUR; FOOD INTAKE; GENOTYPE; GUAM; HUMAN; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; PARKINSONISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PLANT; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL;

AGE FACTORS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN; CAUSALITY; CYCAS; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHY; GUAM; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEUROTOXINS; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RISK FACTORS; TAUOPATHIES; TIME;

EID: 34249099671     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000266867.20409.1c     Document Type: Editorial

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