A peculiar constellation of tau pathology defines a subset of dementia in the elderly

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 205-222

  Kovacs, Gabor G ^a   Molnár, Kinga ^b   László, Lajos ^b   Ströbel, Thomas ^a   Botond, Gergö ^a   Hönigschnabl, Selma ^c   Reiner Concin, Angelika ^c   Palkovits, Miklós ^d   Fischer, Peter ^c   Budka, Herbert ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c DANUBE HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^d SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Argyrophilic grain disease; Corticobasal degeneration; Dementia; Phospho tau epitope; Progressive supranuclear palsy; Tau; TDP 43

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; APOE GENE; ARGENTAFFIN CELL; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DEMENTIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; H1 GENE; H2 GENE; HAPLOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOCUS CERULEUS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MAPT GENE; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SENILE PLAQUE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TAUOPATHY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES;

EID: 79960836898     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: 14320533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-011-0819-x     Document Type: Article

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