Articles Tagged With: p-syn
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P-syn in Nerve Fibers on Skin Biopsy May Help Diagnose Dementia with Lewy Bodies
This study compared 18 subjects diagnosed with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), 23 with nonsynucleinopathy dementia, and 25 healthy controls and demonstrated that phosphorylated alpha-synuclein was found only in the skin nerve fibers of DLB subjects, helping distinguish this type of dementia from other types.