100 years of Lewy pathology

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-24

  Goedert, Michel ^a   Spillantini, Maria Grazia ^b   Del Tredici, Kelly ^c   Braak, Heiko ^b  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN;

BRAIN REGION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GERMANY; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; LEWY BODY; MEYNERT BASAL NUCLEUS; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOTONEURON NUCLEUS; MOUSE; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PUTAMEN; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VAGUS NERVE;

ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; BRAIN; GERMANY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LEWY BODY DISEASE; MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 84871921766     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2012.242     Document Type: Review

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