Tau-positive grains are constant in centenarians' hippocampus

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1296-1303

  Pham, Chi Tuan ^a,b   de Silva, Rohan ^c   Haïk, Stéphane ^a,b   Verny, Marc ^a,d   Sachet, Annick ^a   Forette, Bernard ^e   Lees, Andrew ^c   Hauw, Jean Jacques ^a,b   Duyckaerts, Charles ^a,b,d  

^a ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE ÉPINIÈRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines University   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Argyrophilic grain disease; Centenarians; Coiled bodies; Dementwia; Gallyas; RD4; Tau; Tauopathy

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORYLATION INDEPENDENT TAU PROTEIN ANTIBODY; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; PROTEIN ANTIBODY RD 4; TAU PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; AGING; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARGYROPHILIC GRAIN DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COILED BODY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILVER STAINING;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INCLUSION BODIES; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; SILVER STAINING; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES;

EID: 79958772924     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

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