Relative telomere length in patients with late-onset Alzheimer's dementia or vascular dementia

NeuroReport

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1199-1202

  Löf Öhlin, Zarah M ^a   Hagnelius, Nils Olof ^a,b   Nilsson, Torbjörn K ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's disease; Biomarker; Real time PCR; Single copy gene; Telomere repeats; Telomere single copy gene value; Vascular dementia

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME SIZE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMENTIA, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TELOMERE;

EID: 51649093878     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e3283089220     Document Type: Article

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