Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity in Alzheimer's Disease Patients and Elderly Control Subjects

A defective blood-brain barrier (BBB) has been postulated to be present in Alzheimer's disease (AD), which would allow circulating -amyloid peptide to enter the brain. The authors tested this hypothesis by studying BBB function in 14 individuals with probable AD and 9 elderly control subjects....

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Veröffentlicht in:	The journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences 1998, Vol.10 (1), p.78-84
Hauptverfasser:	Caserta, Maria T, Caccioppo, Daniel, Lapin, Gregory D, Ragin, Ann, Groothuis, Dennis R
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Aged, 80 and over Algorithms Alzheimer Disease - diagnostic imaging Alzheimer Disease - physiopathology Blood-Brain Barrier - physiology Female Humans Image Processing, Computer-Assisted Male Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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