Hippocampal sclerosis of aging, a prevalent and high-morbidity brain disease

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 161-177

  Nelson, Peter T ^a   Smith, Charles D ^a   Abner, Erin L ^a   Wilfred, Bernard J ^a   Wang, Wang Xia ^a   Neltner, Janna H ^a   Baker, Michael ^a   Fardo, David W ^b   Kryscio, Richard J ^a,b   Scheff, Stephen W ^a   Jicha, Gregory A ^a   Jellinger, Kurt A ^c   Van Eldik, Linda J ^a   Schmitt, Frederick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL NEUROBIOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aging; Arteriolosclerosis; Cerebrovascular; Cognition; Dementia; Epidemiology; FTLD; Genetics; Hippocampus; MRI; Neuropathology; Neuroradiology; Oldest old; Pathology; TARDBP; TDP 43; TDP43

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APP GENE; ASTROCYTOSIS; AUTOPSY; BRAIN REGION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE MARKER; ENDOPHENOTYPE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HIPPOCAMPAL SCLEROSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGING; BRAIN DISEASES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; SCLEROSIS;

EID: 84881100355     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: 14320533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-013-1154-1     Document Type: Review

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