Normal-tension glaucoma and Alzheimer's disease: Helicobacter pylori as a possible common underlying risk factor

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 228-229

  Kountouras, Jannis ^a   Zavos, Christos ^a   Gavalas, Emmanuel ^a   Boziki, Marina ^a   Chatzopoulos, Dimitrios ^a   Katsinelos, Panagiotis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; AUTOANTIBODY; CYTOKINE; ENDOTHELIN; FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; ICOSANOID; LIPID PEROXIDASE; PROCOAGULANT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EYE BLOOD FLOW; GLAUCOMA; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; LETTER; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; MONONUCLEAR CELL; NORMAL TENSION GLAUCOMA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; VALSALVA MANEUVER; VASCULAR DISEASE;

HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 33751081283     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.07.008     Document Type: Letter

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