Decreased expression of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA-encoded genes of oxidative phosphorylation in association neocortex in Alzheimer disease

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 99-104

  Chandrasekaran, Krish ^a,b   Hatanpää, Kimmo ^a   Rapoport, Stanley I ^a   Brady, Daniel R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b Bldg 10 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Brain; Cerebral cortex; Energy metabolism; Mitochondria; mRNA; Northern blot; Oxidative phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; CELL NUCLEUS DNA; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; RIBOSOME RNA;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME SUBUNIT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEOCORTEX; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BASE SEQUENCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION;

EID: 0031036773     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(96)00191-X     Document Type: Article

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