Amino acids and transaminases activity in ventricular CSF and in brain of normal and Alzheimer patients

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 388, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-53

  D'Aniello, Antimo ^a   Fisher, George ^b   Migliaccio, Nicola ^c   Cammisa, Giuseppe ^c   D'Aniello, Enrico ^a   Spinelli, Patrizia ^a  

^a STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^b BARRY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Laboratory of Clinical Analysis   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Amino acids; Human Brain; Human CSF; Transaminases

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; AMINO ACID; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; ASPARTIC ACID;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN LEVEL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; UPREGULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACIDS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; ASPARTIC ACID; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; LATERAL VENTRICLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; TRANSAMINASES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 27244436100     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.06.030     Document Type: Article

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