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SUBMITTER: Ighodaro ET
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4539239 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ighodaro Eseosa T ET Jicha Gregory A GA Schmitt Frederick A FA Neltner Janna H JH Abner Erin L EL Kryscio Richard J RJ Smith Charles D CD Duplessis Taylor T Anderson Sonya S Patel Ela E Bachstetter Adam A Van Eldik Linda J LJ Nelson Peter T PT
Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology 20150701 7
Hippocampal sclerosis of aging (HS-Aging) is a neurodegenerative disease that mimics Alzheimer disease (AD) clinically and has a prevalence rivaling AD in advanced age. Whereas clinical biomarkers are not yet optimized, HS-Aging has distinctive pathological features that distinguish it from other diseases with "hippocampal sclerosis" pathology, such as epilepsy, cerebrovascular perturbations, and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. By definition, HS-Aging brains show neuronal cell loss and gliosi ...[more]