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Apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 allele and pupillary response to tropicamide.
The American journal of psychiatry - 1 May 1997
Higuchi S, Matsushita S, Hasegawa Y, Muramatsu T, Arai H, Hayashida M
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OBJECTIVE: This study was designed to investigate in cognitively normal subjects the possible association between hypersensitive pupil dilation response to the cholinergic antagonist tropicamide and the presence of the apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 (APOE4) allele, a well-defined genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. METHOD: The authors measured tropicamide-induced changes in pupil area in 44 cognitively...
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