Associations between White Matter Hyperintensities and β Amyloid on Integrity of Projection, Association, and Limbic Fiber Tracts Measured with Diffusion Tensor MRI

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Chao, Linda L ^a,b   DeCarli, Charles ^c   Kriger, Stephen ^b   Truran, Diana ^b   Zhang, Yu ^a,b   Laxamana, Joel ^b   Villeneuve, Sylvia ^d   Jagust, William J ^d   Sanossian, Nerses ^e   Mack, Wendy J ^e   Chui, Helena C ^e   Weiner, Michael W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; PITTSBURGH COMPOUND B;

AGED; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL DEMENTIA RATING; CORONA RADIATA (BRAIN); CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; ORGAN SIZE; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RISK FACTOR; WHITE MATTER LESION; WHITE MATTER VOLUME; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METABOLISM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

RADIATA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ANISOTROPY; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84878782202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065175     Document Type: Article

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