Huntington’s chorea: Post-mortem measurement of glutamic acid decarboxylase, choline acetyltransferase and dopamine in basal ganglia

Brain

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 1974, Pages 457-472

  Bird, E D ^a,b   Iversen, L L ^a,b  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Medicine   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; PROTEIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; HUNTINGTON CHOREA;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANIMAL; AUTOPSY; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CARBOXY-LYASES; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHILD; CHOLINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; GLUTAMATES; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MALE; MICE; MIDDLE AGE; PUTAMEN; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 84959787530     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/97.3.457     Document Type: Article

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