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Correlation of the clinical severity of Alzheimer's disease with an aberration in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).
Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN - 1 Feb 2001
Brown A M, Sheu R K, Mohs R, Haroutunian V, Blass J P
Abstract excerpt
Controversy exists about which of the well-established neurobiological abnormalities in Alzheimer's disease (AD) relate directly to the clinical disabilities. Because of an interest in the mitochondrial lesion in AD, we tested the correlation between clinical disability (measured by the Clinical Dementia Rating [CDR] scale) and an anomaly in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in AD brain. Simultaneous polymerase chain...
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