Atypical tauopathy with massive involvement of the white matter

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 468-472

  Giaccone, G ^a   Marcon, G ^a,b   Mangieri, M ^a   Morbin, M ^a   Rossi, G ^a   Fetoni, V ^c   Patriarca, C ^c   Catania, M ^a   Fede, G D ^a   Tagliavini, F ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^c Public Health Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TAU PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GLIA CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TAUOPATHY; WHITE MATTER; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DISEASE; DEMENTIA; LETTER; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURONS; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES;

EID: 56149116672     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: 13652990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2007.00927.x     Document Type: Article

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