Thiamine therapy in Alzheimer's disease

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 89-94

  Mimori, Yasuyo ^a   Katsuoka, Hiroyuki ^a   Nakamura, Shigenobu ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; cognitive function; fursultiamine; thiamine

Indexed keywords

FURSULTIAMINE; THIAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; VITAMIN METABOLISM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FURSULTIAMIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THIAMINE;

EID: 0029923465     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02080934     Document Type: Article

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