Progressive anomia revisited: Focal degeneration associated with progranulin gene mutation

Neurocase

Volumn 13, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 366-377

  Snowden, Julie S ^a,b   Pickering Brown, Stuart M ^a   du Plessis, Daniel ^b   Mackenzie, Ian R A ^c   Varma, Anoop ^b   Mann, David M A ^a   Neary, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anomia; Frontotemporal lobar degeneration; Primary progressive aphasia; Progranulin; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; PROGRANULIN; GRN PROTEIN, HUMAN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXON; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ONSET AGE; PATHOGENESIS; PHONETICS; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; SPEECH ARTICULATION; APRAXIA; ATROPHY; BRAIN; FATALITY; GENETICS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MUTATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; PATHOLOGY;

AGED; ANOMIA; APRAXIAS; ATROPHY; CEREBRUM; FATAL OUTCOME; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MUTATION; NERVE DEGENERATION;

EID: 57749161719     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790701851510     Document Type: Article

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