Apolipoprotein E4 and brain white matter integrity in Alzheimer's disease: Tract-based spatial statistics study under 3-tesla MRI

Neurodegenerative Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 1-4, 2012, Pages 145-148

  Bagepally, Bhavani Shankara ^a   Halahalli, Harsha N ^a   John, John P ^a   Kota, Lakshminarayan ^a   Purushottam, Meera ^a   Mukherjee, Odity ^b   Sivakumar, Palanimuthu Thangaraju ^a   Bharath, Srikala ^a   Jain, Sanjeev ^a   Varghese, Mathew ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Apolipoprotein E4 polymorphism; Brain white matter integrity

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SPATIAL STATISTICS; STATISTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANISOTROPY; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 84860218728     PISSN: 16602854     EISSN: 16602862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000334761     Document Type: Article

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