Is the aluminum hypothesis dead?

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Lidsky, Theodore I ^a  

^a Center for Trace Element Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM OXIDE; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; DRINKING WATER;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID PLAQUE; BODY BURDEN; BRAIN LEVEL; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; COGNITION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MINER; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION AND DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; REVIEW; VASCULAR AMYLOIDOSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY; AGING; ANIMAL; KITCHEN; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TOXICITY;

AGING; ALUMINUM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; COOKING AND EATING UTENSILS; HUMANS; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; PLAQUE, AMYLOID; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84901036231     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000063     Document Type: Review

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