Traumatic brain injury and amyloid-β pathology: A link to alzheimer's disease?

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 361-370

  Johnson, Victoria E ^a,b   Stewart, William ^b,c   Smith, Douglas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID PLAQUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; AXONS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; PLAQUE, AMYLOID;

EID: 79961158069     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2808     Document Type: Article

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