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NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
Volume 34, Issue 2, Pages 632-633Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.05.015
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Parkinson's disease; Meta-analysis; Copper; Iron; Serum; Plasma; Cerebrospinal fluid
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To evaluate whether iron and copper levels in serum, plasma, and cerebrospinal fluid are disarranged in Parkinson's disease (PD), we performed meta-analyses of 33 studies on the topic published from 1987 to 2011 and contextually carried out a replication study in serum by ourselves as well. We found no variation in metals between PD patients and healthy controls, according to our replication study. The metaregression for sex revealed that serum copper differences found in some studies could be referred to the different percentage of women in the PD sample. Transferrin and transferrin saturation levels found increased in PD subjects underline the concept to extend the iron study in PD to iron master proteins. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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