Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy can differentiate Alzheimer's disease from normal aging

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 9-14

  Parnetti, Lucilla ^a   Tarducci, Roberto ^b   Presciutti, Otello ^b   Lowenthal, David T ^c   Pippi, Margherita ^a   Palumbo, Barbara ^a   Gobbi, Gianni ^b   Pelliccioli, Gian Piero ^b   Senin, Umberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

1H MRS; Aging brain; Alzheimer's disease; Myo inositol; N acetyl aspartate; Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CREATINE; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTONS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0030926085     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-6374(97)01877-0     Document Type: Article

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