Restoration: Potential for compensatory changes in numbers of neurons in adult human brain

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 762-764

  Saper, Clifford B ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE; OREXIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; CATAPLEXY; CELL POPULATION; COMPENSATION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EDITORIAL; GENETIC DISORDER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; NARCOLEPSY; NERVE CELL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIST; NEUROLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; HISTAMINE; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NARCOLEPSY; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES;

EID: 84892945497     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: 15318249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.24039     Document Type: Editorial

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