Alzheimer-type pathology in a patient with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS)

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 312-318

  Kaido, M ^a   Fujimura, H ^a   Soga, F ^a   Toyooka, K ^a   Yoshikawa, H ^a   Nishimura, T ^a   Higashi, T ^b   Inui, K ^a   Imanishi, H ^b   Yorifuji, S ^a   Yanagihara, T ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Osaka Teishin Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

protein; Alzheimer disease; Lactic acidosis and stroke like episodes (MELAS); Mitochondrial DNA; Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy; Senile plaque

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TAU PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

ACCIDENT; ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CODON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE MUTATION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MELAS SYNDROME; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROFILAMENT; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; SENILE PLAQUE; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELAS SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; PEDIGREE;

EID: 9444264677     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004010050524     Document Type: Article

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