Purkinje cell loss in the cerebellar flocculus in patients with ataxia with ocular motor apraxia type 1/early-onset ataxia with ocular motor apraxia and hypoalbuminemia

European Neurology

Volumn 59, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 18-23

  Sugawara, Masashiro ^a   Wada, Chizu ^a   Okawa, Satoshi ^a   Kobayashi, Michio ^a   Sageshima, Masato ^b   Imota, Tsuyoshi ^c   Toyoshima, Itaru ^a  

^a AKITA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Akita City Hosp   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aprataxin; Ataxia with ocular motor apraxia type 1; Early onset ataxia with ocular motor apraxia and hypoalbuminemia; Flocculus; Ocular motor apraxia; Vestibulo ocular reflex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM FLOCCULUS; FEMALE; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MALE; OCULAR MOTOR APRAXIA TYPE 1; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL;

ADULT; APRAXIAS; CELL DEATH; CEREBELLUM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; JAPAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; PURKINJE CELLS; STAINING AND LABELING; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37248998775     PISSN: 00143022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000109256     Document Type: Article

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