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Apolipoprotein E, cholesterol transport and synthesis in sporadic Alzheimer's disease.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Mar 2005
Poirier Judes
Abstract excerpt
The discovery that the apolipoprotein E4 (apoE4) allele is genetically linked to both sporadic and familial late onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) raises the possibility that a dysfunction of the lipid transport system could seriously affect lipid homeostasis in the brain of AD subjects. The presence of the E4 allele has been associated with lower levels of apoE in both serum and brain tissues of normal and AD...
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