Marginal vitamin A deficiency facilitates Alzheimer’s pathogenesis

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 967-982

  Zeng, Jiaying ^a,b   Chen, Li ^a   Wang, Zhe ^b   Chen, Qian ^a   Fan, Zhen ^a   Jiang, Hongpeng ^a   Wu, Yili ^b   Ren, Lan ^a   Chen, Jie ^a   Li, Tingyu ^a   Song, Weihong ^a,b  

^a CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer s disease; Amyloid protein; Marginal vitamin A deficiency; Memory deficits; Vitamin A supplement

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; BETA SECRETASE 1; RETINOL; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARGINAL VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRENATAL PERIOD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SENILE PLAQUE; AMYLOID PLAQUE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; CELL LINE; COMPLICATION; DIET THERAPY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DISEASE MODEL; MEMORY DISORDER; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS; BRAIN; CELL LINE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PLAQUE, AMYLOID; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 85010830924     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: 14320533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-017-1669-y     Document Type: Article

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