Cardiac sympathetic denervation in Parkinson's disease linked to SNCA duplication

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 575-577

  Orimo, Satoshi ^a,b   Uchihara, Toshiki ^b   Nakamura, Ayako ^b   Mori, Fumiaki ^c   Ikeuchi, Takeshi ^d   Onodera, Osamu ^d   Nishizawa, Masatoyo ^d   Ishikawa, Atsushi ^e   Kakita, Akiyoshi ^d   Wakabayashi, Koichi ^c   Takahashi, Hitoshi ^d  

^a The Mutualaid Association of Public School Teachers)   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e National Hospital Organization   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN;

ADULT; AGED; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; GENE DUPLICATION; HEART DENERVATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LETTER; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; DENERVATION; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; GENE DUPLICATION; HEART; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEWY BODIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 54149109131     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-008-0428-5     Document Type: Letter

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