Insular Alzheimer's disease pathology as a cause of "age-related" autonomic dysfunction and mortality in the non-demented elderly

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 747-758

  Royall, Donald R ^a   Gao, Jia Hong ^b   Kellogg Jr , Dean L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; INSULA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY;

EID: 33745949718     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.10.036     Document Type: Article

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