One-carbon metabolism and Alzheimer's disease: Is it all a methylation matter?

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1192-1195

  Fuso, Andrea ^a   Scarpa, Sigfrido ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

B vitamins; DNA methylation; Homocysteine; Late onset AD; One carbon metabolism; Protein methylation

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PROTEIN; CARBON; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; PYRIDOXINE; TAU PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CARBON METABOLISM; EPIGENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN HOMEOSTASIS; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN METHYLATION;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS;

EID: 79958766232     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.01.012     Document Type: Note

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