Enduring involvement of tau, β-amyloid, α-synuclein, ubiquitin and TDP-43 pathology in the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/parkinsonism-dementia complex of Guam (ALS/PDC)

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 625-637

  Miklossy, Judith ^a   Steele, John C ^b   Yu, Sheng ^a   McCall, Sherman ^c   Sandberg, Glenn ^d   McGeer, Edith G ^a   McGeer, Patrick L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Guam Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^c UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Synuclein; Amyloid protein; Alzheimer's disease; Coiled body; Neurofibrillary tangles; Parkinsonism; Tau; TDP 43

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN TDP 43; TAU PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GUAM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PACIFIC ISLANDER; PALLIDOPONTO NIGRAL DEGENERATION; PARKINSONISM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DEMENTIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GUAM; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INCLUSION BODIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; TAU PROTEINS; UBIQUITIN;

EID: 56749098112     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-008-0439-2     Document Type: Article

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