Nucleus basalis neuronal loss and neuritic plaques in advanced Alzheimer's disease.
All our advanced severe cases of Alzheimer's disease had dramatic cholinergic cell loss in the basal forebrain, even after correction for cell or nucleolus shrinkage. We examined the relation between cell loss in the various subdivisions of the nucleus basalis of Meynert and plaque counts in corresponding and noncorresponding projection areas. This relation was not interpretable because of the ambiguity in the data.
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D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000473:pathology*; D001479:Basal Ganglia / Q000473:pathology*; D002452:Cell Count; D002799:Cholinergic Fibers / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009474:Neurons / Q000473:pathology*