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A preliminary study on the influence of glutathione S transferase T1 (GSTT1) as a risk factor for late onset Alzheimer's disease in North Indian population.
Asian journal of psychiatry - 1 Jun 2012
Ghosh Tandra, Mustafa Md, Kumar Vivek, Datta Sudip Kumar, Bhatia Manjit Singh, Sircar Sabyasachi, Banerjee Basu Dev
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INTRODUCTION: Oxidative stress plays key role in pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease. Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs), a family of phase-II isoenzymes, play a critical role in providing protection against electrophiles and products of oxidative stress. Among different classes of GSTs, GSTM1 (Mu) and GSTT1 (theta) are found to be genetically deleted which results in decreased expression of the concerned enzyme....
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