Argyrophilic grains are reliable disease-specific features of corticobasal degeneration

Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 30-38

  Tatsumi, Shinsui ^a   Mimuro, Maya ^a   Iwasaki, Yasushi ^a   Takahashi, Ryosuke ^b   Kakita, Akiyoshi ^c   Takahashi, Hitoshi ^c   Yoshida, Mari ^a  

^a AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

4 repeat tauopathy; Argyrophilic grain; Corticobasal degeneration; Tau.

Indexed keywords

AT8 ANTIBODY; BRAIN ANTIBODY; RD4 ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ARGYROPHILIA; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GALLYAS BRAAK STAIN; GRAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPIL; PAIRED HELICAL FILAMENT; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILVER STAINING; TAUOPATHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84891834472     PISSN: 00223069     EISSN: 15546578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NEN.0000000000000022     Document Type: Article

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