Choroid plexus portals and a deficiency of melatonin can explain the neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1059-1066

  Maurizi, Charles P ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CELL DESTRUCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CHOROID PLEXUS; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SUPERIOR SAGITTAL SINUS; THEORY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CHOROID PLEXUS; HUMANS; MELATONIN; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

EID: 77951623597     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.12.026     Document Type: Article

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