Plasma homocysteine concentration, C677T MTHFR genotype, and 844ins68bp CBS genotype in young adults with spontaneous cervical artery dissection and atherothrombotic stroke

Stroke

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 664-669

  Pezzini, Alessandro ^a   Del Zotto, Elisabetta ^a   Archetti, Silvana ^b   Negrini, Riccardo ^b   Bani, Paolo ^b   Albertini, Alberto ^b   Grassi, Mario ^c   Assanelli, Deodato ^b   Gasparotti, Roberto ^b   Vignolo, Luigi Amedeo ^a   Magoni, Mauro ^a   Padovani, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cervical artery dissection; Cystathionine synthase; Homocysteine; Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); CYSTATHIONINE BETA SYNTHASE; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CERVICAL ARTERY DISSECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL, DISSECTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; ITALY; MALE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); OXIDOREDUCTASES ACTING ON CH-NH GROUP DONORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY DISSECTION;

EID: 18344364639     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/hs0302.103625     Document Type: Article

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