Alzheimer's disease in Brazilian elderly has a relation with homocysteine but not with MTHFR polymorphisms A doença de Alzheimer em idosos brasileiros tem relação com homocisteina mas não com polimorfismos MTHFR

Alzheimer's disease in Brazilian elderly has a relation with homocysteine but not with MTHFR polymorphisms A doença de Alzheimer em idosos brasileiros tem relação com homocisteina mas não com polimorfismos MTHFR

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between total plasma homocysteine concentration, C677T and A1298C polymorphisms in MTHFR gene and Alzheimer's disease (AD) development. METHOD: Forty-three patients with probable (63%) and possible (37%) AD and 50 non-demented controls were evaluated. G...

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Main Authors: Vanessa Cavalcante da Silva, Flávio José da Costa Ramos, Elizabete Malaquias Freitas, Paulo Roberto de Brito-Marques, Márcia Nery de Holanda Cavalcanti, Vânia D’Almeida, José Eulálio Cabral-Filho, Maria Tereza Cartaxo Muniz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 2006-12-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
Subjects:
homocisteína
MTHFR
doença de Alzheimer
homocysteine
Alzheimer’s disease
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2006000600010
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