Can the rDNA methylation pattern be used as a marker for Alzheimer's disease?

Alzheimer's and Dementia

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 438-442

  Sperança, Márcia Aparecida ^a   Batista, Lisandra Mesquita ^a   da Silva Lourenço, Ricardo ^a   Tavares, Wagner Malagó ^a   Bertolucci, Paulo Henrique Ferreira ^b   de Oliveira Santos Rigolin, Valdeci ^a   Payão, Spencer Luiz Marques ^a,b   de Arruda Cardoso Smith, Marília ^b  

^a Marilia Medical School   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ageing; Alzheimer's disease; Analysis of the human rDNA methylation pattern in ageing and Alzheimer's disease; Human rDNA; rRNA expression

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; DNA 18S; DNA 28S; ENDONUCLEASE; RIBOSOME DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA RESTRICTION; FEMALE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S;

EID: 55549147921     PISSN: 15525260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2008.03.010     Document Type: Article

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