Systemic Inflammation in Non-Demented Elderly Human Subjects: Brain Microstructure and Cognition

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Arfanakis, Konstantinos ^a,b,c   Fleischman, Debra A ^b,c   Grisot, Giorgia ^a   Barth, Christopher M ^a   Varentsova, Anna ^a   Morris, Martha C ^c   Barnes, Lisa L ^b,c   Bennett, David A ^b,c  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AGED; AGING; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEMENTIA; DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 84883101175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073107     Document Type: Article

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