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High Brain <i>myo</i>-Inositol Levels in the Predementia Phase of Alzheimer’s Disease in Adults With Down’s Syndrome: A <sup>1</sup>H MRS Study
1 Dec 1999
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OBJECTIVE: An extra portion of chromosome 21 in Down's syndrome leads to a dementia in later life that is phenotypically similar to Alzheimer's disease. Down's syndrome therefore represents a model for studying preclinical stages of Alzheimer's disease. Markers that have been investigated in symptomatic Alzheimer's disease are myoinositol and N-acetyl-aspartate. The authors investigated whether abnormal brain...
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