Reduced size of right hippocampus in 39- to 80-year-old normal subjects carrying the apolipoprotein E ε4 allele

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 236, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-24

  Tohgi, Hideo ^a   Takahashi, Satoshi ^a   Kato, Etsuko ^a   Homma, Akira ^b   Rie Niina, ^b   Sasaki, Kazuhiro ^a   Yonezawa, Hisashi ^a   Sasaki, Makoto ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apolipoprotein E genotype; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0031585498     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00743-X     Document Type: Article

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