Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - A model of corticofugal axonal spread

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 708-714

  Braak, Heiko ^a   Brettschneider, Johannes ^a   Ludolph, Albert C ^a   Lee, Virginia M ^b   Trojanowski, John Q ^b   Tredici, Kelly Del ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MOTONEURON; NEOCORTEX; NEOCORTICOFUGAL AXONAL PATHWAY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; THALAMUS;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84890121734     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2013.221     Document Type: Review

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