A 90-year-old monozygotic female twin pair discordant for Alzheimer's disease

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 941-945

  Järvenpää, Tarja ^a   Räihä, Ismo ^a,b   Kaprio, Jaakko ^c,d   Koskenvuo, Markku ^a   Laine, Matti ^e   Kurki, Timo ^a   Viljanen, Tapio ^a   Rinne, Juha O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b TURKU CITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Monozygotic twins; NSAID use; Very old age

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENDER; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0043092120     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(03)00008-3     Document Type: Article

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