Significance of cerebellar Purkinje cell loss to pathogenesis of essential tremor

Parkinsonism and Related Disorders

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 410-412

  Rajput, A H ^a   Rajput, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Degeneration; Essential tremor; Pathology; Purkinje cells

Indexed keywords

AGE; CELL COUNT; CELL DEGENERATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LOSS; CEREBELLUM DEGENERATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; LEWY BODY; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; SHORT SURVEY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ESSENTIAL TREMOR; HUMANS; NERVE DEGENERATION; PURKINJE CELLS;

EID: 79959367733     PISSN: 13538020     EISSN: 18735126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2011.05.008     Document Type: Short Survey

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