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The ability of THA treatment to increase cortical alpha waves is related to apolipoprotein E genotype of Alzheimer disease patients.
Psychopharmacology - 1 Feb 1997
Riekkinen P, Soininen H, Partanen J, Pääkkönen A, Helisalmi S, Riekkinen P
Abstract excerpt
In a previous study, we reported that Alzheimer disease (AD) patients with an apolipoprotein E (APOE) epsilon 4 allele (+ APOE4) show more severe loss of nucleus basalis (NB) cholinergic cells than patients without epsilon 4 alleles (-APOE4). The present study investigates the effects of a single oral administration of THA 25 or 50 mg on cortical spectral EEG activity in + (five APOE4/4, six APOE4/3) and -APOE4...
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