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Astrogliosis and the ApoE genotype. an immunohistochemical study of postmortem human brain tissue.
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders - 1 Jan 2000
Overmyer M, Helisalmi S, Soininen H, Laakso M, Riekkinen P, Alafuzoff I
Abstract excerpt
Significantly increased glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) expression was seen in postmortem brain tissue from demented patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) (73 cases, 61 females/12 males, mean age 84 +/- 9 years) compared to controls (22 cases, 10 females/12 males, mean age 78 +/- 9 years). In demented patients, the GFAP expression, counts of AD lesions, senile/neuritic plaques (SP/NP) and neurofibrillary...
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