Alzheimer disease: AD pathology - Emerging subtypes or age-of-onset spectrum?

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-12

  Masliah, Eliezer ^a   Hansen, Lawrence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID PLAQUE; ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; NEOCORTEX; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; ONSET AGE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; HUMANS;

EID: 84655162293     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2011.205     Document Type: Article

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