Two patterns of β-amyloid precursor protein (APP) immunoreactivity in cases of blunt head injury

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Hayashi, Takahito ^a   Ago, Kazutoshi ^a   Ago, Mihoko ^a   Ogata, Mamoru ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amyloid precursor protein (APP); Diffuse traumatic axonal injury; Hypoxia; Immunoreactive patterns

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT HEAD INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL STRUCTURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SURVIVAL TIME; TISSUE SECTION; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; AXONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 67349086873     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.01.076     Document Type: Article

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