Homocysteine and cognition - No longer a hypothesis? [11]

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 682-683

  McCaddon, A ^a   Regland, B ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; CYSTATHIONINE BETA SYNTHASE; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHIONINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROTOXIN; PYRIDOXINE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; APOPTOSIS; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CARBON METABOLISM; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DNA METHYLATION; EXCITOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LETTER; LEUKOARAIOSIS; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NERVE DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; METHIONINE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMINS;

EID: 30344460654     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.03.034     Document Type: Letter

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