Influence of brain-derived neurotrophic-factor and apolipoprotein E genetic variants on hippocampal volume and memory performance in healthy young adults

Journal of Neural Transmission

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 249-257

  Richter Schmidinger, Tanja ^a   Alexopoulos, Panagiotis ^a,b,e   Horn, Marco ^a   Maus, Sebastian ^a   Reichel, Martin ^a   Rhein, Cosima ^a   Lewczuk, Piotr ^a   Sidiropoulos, Christos ^a,c   Kneib, Thomas ^d   Perneczky, Robert ^b   Doerfler, Arnd ^a   Kornhuber, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

ApoE; BDNF; Cognitive function; Hippocampus

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR MET66; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

APOLIPOPROTEINS E; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955929869     PISSN: 03009564     EISSN: 14351463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-010-0539-8     Document Type: Article

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