in Alzheimer's disease. A monoclonal antibody to non-phosphorylated neurofilament protein
labels a distinct subset of pyramidal cells in the normal human cortex which have a
distribution very similar to that of neurofibrillary tangles in brains from patients with
Alzheimer's disease. In addition, regions and layers that normally contain a high density of
such cells, in Alzheimer's disease, have large numbers of neurofibrillary tangles and few …