Comparison of Histological Techniques to Visualize Iron in Paraffin-embedded Brain Tissue of Patients with Alzheimer's Disease

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 785-792

  van Duijn, Sara ^a   Nabuurs, Rob J A ^a   van Duinen, Sjoerd G ^a   Natté, Remco ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; brain; ferritin; iron; microglia; plaques

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; PARAFFIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN TISSUE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXTRACTION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROGLIA; NEOCORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAINING; WHITE MATTER;

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; BRAIN; FERRITIN; IRON; MICROGLIA; PLAQUES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; FERRITINS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IRON; MIDDLE AGED; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; PLAQUE, AMYLOID;

EID: 84887348477     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1369/0022155413501325     Document Type: Article

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