The inferior olivary nucleus: A postmortem study of essential tremor cases versus controls

Movement Disorders

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 779-786

  Louis, Elan D ^a,b,c   Babij, Rachel ^a   Cortés, Etty ^d   Vonsattel, Jean Paul G ^b,d   Faust, Phyllis L ^d  

^a Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons   (United States)

^b Columbia University Medical Center and the New York Presbyterian Hospital ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Medicine   (United States)

^d NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Essential tremor; Inferior olivary nucleus; Neurodegenerative; Pathology; Pathophysiology

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CELL SHAPE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; GLIA; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; INFERIOR OLIVE; MALE; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTMORTEM CHANGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESSENTIAL TREMOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; POSTMORTEM CHANGES;

EID: 84879603972     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.25400     Document Type: Article

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