Article
Association between neurotrophin-3 polymorphisms and executive function in Japanese patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment and mild Alzheimer disease.
Dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders - 1 Jan 2012
Kobayashi Nobuyuki, Nagata Tomoyuki, Shinagawa Shunichiro, Nakayama Ritsuko, Kondo Kazuhiro, Nakayama Kazuhiko, Yamada Hisashi
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We investigated whether neurotrophin (NT)-3 polymorphisms influenced the executive function of patients with 2 separate disease stages with similar dementia conditions: amnestic mild cognitive impairment (A-MCI) or mild Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS: Among 215 outpatients with dementia and MCI, 155 with mild AD (n = 108) or A-MCI (n = 47) were recruited and divided into three genotypic groups based...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
