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Occurrence of T cells in the brain of Alzheimer's disease and other neurological diseases.
Journal of neuroimmunology - 1 Mar 2002
Togo Takashi, Akiyama Haruhiko, Iseki Eizo, Kondo Hiromi, Ikeda Kenji, Kato Masanori, Oda Tatsuro, Tsuchiya Kuniaki, Kosaka Kenji
Abstract excerpt
We investigated the occurrence of T cells in the brain parenchyma of Alzheimer's disease (AD), non-AD degenerative dementias and controls by semi-quantitative analysis of immunohistochemically stained tissue sections. In all cases, we found at least some T cells. The number of T cells was increased in the majority of AD cases compared with other cases. The phenotype of T cells in the AD brain indicates that they...
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