Amygdala granular fuzzy astrocytes as lesions preceding development of argyrophilic grains: data from 239 autopsy cases

• Osamu Yokota,
• Tomoko Miki,
• Chikako Ikeda,
• Hideki Ishizu,
• Takashi Haraguchi,
• Akinori Miyashita,
• Takeshi Ikeuchi,
• Shintaro Takenoshita,
• Seishi Terada

Affiliations

Osamu Yokota

Department of Psychiatry, Kinoko Espoir Hospital, Kasaoka, Japan; Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Zikei Institute of Psychiatry, Okayama, Japan; Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Minami-Okayama Medical Center, Okayama, Japan

Tomoko Miki

Department of Psychiatry, Kinoko Espoir Hospital, Kasaoka, Japan; Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Zikei Institute of Psychiatry, Okayama, Japan; Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Minami-Okayama Medical Center, Okayama, Japan

Chikako Ikeda

Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Zikei Institute of Psychiatry, Okayama, Japan

Hideki Ishizu

3. Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Zikei Institute of Psychiatry, Okayama, Japan

Takashi Haraguchi

Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Minami-Okayama Medical Center, Okayama, Japan

Akinori Miyashita

Department of Molecular Genetics, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

Takeshi Ikeuchi

Department of Molecular Genetics, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan

Shintaro Takenoshita

Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan

Seishi Terada

Department of Neuropsychiatry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan