Patterns of hippocampal tau pathology differentiate neurodegenerative dementias

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

Volumn 38, Issue , 2014, Pages 375-388

  Milenkovic, Ivan ^a   Petrov, Tatjana ^b   Kovacs, Gabor G ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Dementia; Hippocampus; Selective vulnerability; Tauopathies

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN; MAPT PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARGYROPHILIC GRAIN DISEASE; ARTICLE; CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; GLOBULAR GLIAL TAUOPATHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PICK PRESENILE DEMENTIA; PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TAU ASTROGLIOPATHY OF THE ELDERLY; TAUOPATHY; ALGORITHM; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION;

ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PICK DISEASE OF THE BRAIN; SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY, PROGRESSIVE; TAU PROTEINS; TAUOPATHIES;

EID: 84908575141     PISSN: 14208008     EISSN: 14219824     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000365548     Document Type: Article

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