Spreading of pathology in neurodegenerative diseases: A focus on human studies

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 109-120

  Brettschneider, Johannes ^a,b   Del Tredici, Kelly ^b   Lee, Virginia M Y ^a   Trojanowski, John Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMAN; MOTONEURON; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; BRAIN; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY;

BRAIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEURONS;

EID: 84926513913     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3887     Document Type: Review

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