Sex differences in Alzheimer's disease risk: Are we looking at the wrong hormones?

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1579-1584

  Munro, Cynthia A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTROGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CHRONIC STRESS; DENTATE GYRUS; FATHER; FERTILITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LIFE EVENT; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PARITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84931570549     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610214001549     Document Type: Review

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