Fibre diffraction of hair can provide a screening test for Alzheimer's disease: A human and animal model study

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  James, Veronica J ^a   Richardson, Jill C ^b   Robertson, Terry A ^c   Papadimitriou, John M ^c   Dutton, Nichole S ^c   Maley, Moira A L ^c   Berstein, Lev M ^d   Lantseva, Olga E ^e   Martins, Ralph H ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d N N PETROV RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^e Res Inst of Obstet and Gynecology   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Alzheimers Disease; Fibre diffraction of hair; Screening test

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANAMNESIS; ANIMAL MODEL; APP GENE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFRACTION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HAIR; HAIR ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SCREENING TEST; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; SYNCHROTRONS;

EID: 13844316829     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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