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Regional cerebral glucose utilization is modulated by the dosage of apolipoprotein E type 4 allele and alpha1-antichymotrypsin type A allele in Alzheimer's disease.
Neuroreport - 18 Aug 1997
Higuchi M, Arai H, Nakagawa T, Higuchi S, Muramatsu T, Matsushita S, Kosaka Y, Itoh M, Sasaki H
Abstract excerpt
Twenty Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients with defined apolipoprotein E (APOE), alpha1-antichymotrypsin (ACT) and presenilin-1 (PS-1) intronic genotypes were examined to quantify the regional cerebral metabolic rate of glucose (rCMRglc) using positron emission tomography (PET) and 18F-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG). The frontal rCMRglc was significantly increased in patients with the APOE epsilon4 allele in a...
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