Elevated cerebrospinal fluid tau protein levels in Wernicke's encephalopathy

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1091-1095

  Matsushita, Sachio ^a   Miyakawa, Tomohiro ^a   Maesato, Hitoshi ^a   Matsui, Toshifumi ^a   Yokoyama, Akira ^a   Arai, Hiroyuki ^b   Higuchi, Susumu ^a   Kashima, Haruo ^c  

^a KURIHAMA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium; Cerebrospinal Fluid; Korsakoff Syndrome; Tau Protein; Wernicke's Encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN; THREONINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIRIUM TREMENS; DISEASE COURSE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; KORSAKOFF PSYCHOSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL AMNESTIC DISORDER; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL DELIRIUM; ALCOHOLISM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TAU PROTEINS; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 44349095753     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.2008.00671.x     Document Type: Article

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