Low plasma epinephrine in elderly female subjects of dementia of Alzheimer type

Brain Research

Volumn 858, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-70

  Umegaki, Hiroyuki ^a   Ikari, Hiroyuki ^b   Nakahata, Hideki ^a   Yoshimura, Juri ^a   Endo, Hidetoshi ^c   Yamamoto, Takayuki ^b   Iguchi, Akihisa ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHUBU NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Catecholamine; Hippocampus; Insulin; Plasma glucose

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CATECHOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; DOPAMINE; INSULIN; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; DOPAMINE; EPINEPHRINE; FASTING; FEMALE; HUMANS; NOREPINEPHRINE;

EID: 0033970270     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)02440-3     Document Type: Article

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