Recent advances in dementia research in Japan: Alzheimer-type dementia

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-10

  Kosaka, Kenji ^a   Iseki, Eizo ^a   Arai, Heii ^b  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Alzheimer type dementia; Senile dementia of the Alzheimer type

Indexed keywords

3 (2,4 DIMETHOXYBENZYLIDENE)ANABASEINE; ALPHA 1 ANTICHYMOTRYPSIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DONEPEZIL; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; PHOSPHOLIPASE D; PRESENILIN 1; PRESENILIN 2; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TACRINE; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SENILE DEMENTIA; SENILE PLAQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PRESENILIN-1; PRESENILIN-2; PROTEINS; RATS; RESEARCH; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032912927     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.1999.00464.x     Document Type: Review

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