Revisit to Kii ALS - The innovated concept of ALS-parkinsonism-dementia complex, clinicopathological features, epidemiology and etiology

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1065-1074

  Kuzuhara, Shigeki ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS); Epidemiology; Kii peninsula; Parkinsonism dementia complex

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MOTONEURON; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW;

AMINO ACIDS, DIAMINO; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MINERALS; MORBIDITY; MUTATION; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TAU PROTEINS;

EID: 35348967451     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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