A systemic view of Alzheimer disease - Insights from amyloid-β metabolism beyond the brain

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 612-623

  Wang, Jun ^a   Gu, Ben J ^b   Masters, Colin L ^b   Wang, Yan Jiang ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AUTOANTIBODY; LIPID; LIPOPROTEIN; PLASMA PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BIOGENESIS; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EXOSOME; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTESTINE INFECTION; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPOPROTEIN METABOLISM; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; METABOLIC DISORDER; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP DISORDER; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 85032578710     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2017.111     Document Type: Review

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