Dendritic and spinal pathology of the purkinje cells from the human cerebellar vermis in alzheimer's disease

Psychiatria Danubina

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 221-226

  Mavroudis, Ioannis A ^a   Manani, Marina G ^a   Petrides, Foivos ^a   Petsoglou, Konstantina ^b   Njau, Samuel D ^b   Costa, Vasiliki G ^a,c   Baloyannis, Stavros J ^a,c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c Research Institute for Alzheimer's Disease   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cerebellum; Golgi method; Purkinje cells

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC ARBORIZATION; DENDRITIC SPINE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GOLGI STAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PURKINJE CELL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DENDRITIC SPINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PURKINJE CELLS;

EID: 84885194733     PISSN: 03535053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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