Tumor necrosis factor α polymorphism C-850T is not associated with Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia in an Italian population

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 344, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 135-137

  Terreni, Liana ^a   Fogliarino, Sergio ^a   Quadri, Pierluigi ^b   Ruggieri, Rosa Maria ^c   Piccoli, Federico ^c   Tettamanti, Mauro ^a   Lucca, Ugo ^a   Forloni, Gianluigi ^a  

^a MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^b Ospedale Beata Vergine   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apolipoprotein E; Cytokines; Dementia; Genetic risk; Neuroinflammation

Indexed keywords

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0037680697     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00434-8     Document Type: Short Survey

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