Torpedoes in Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, essential tremor, and control brains

Movement Disorders

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1600-1605

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b,c,j   Faust, Phyllis L ^b   Vonsattel, Jean Paul G ^b   Honig, Lawrence S ^a,b   Rajput, Alex ^d   Rajput, Ali ^d   Pahwa, Rajesh ^e   Lyons, Kelly E ^e   Ross, Webster G ^f,g,h   Elble, Rodger J ⁱ   Erickson Davis, Cordelia ^a   Moskowitz, Carol B ^a,b   Lawton, Arlene ^a,b  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^b Royal University Hospital ^*  (United States)

^c University of Kansas Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^d ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^g PACIFIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h KUAKINI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cerebellum; Essential tremor; Parkinson's disease; Pathology; Torpedoes

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; FAST BLUE; HEMATOXYLIN;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN SLICE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AXONS; BRAIN STEM; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEWY BODIES; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PURKINJE CELLS;

EID: 69949179971     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.22567     Document Type: Article

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