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NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
卷 29, 期 3, 页码 329-340出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2006.10.030
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apolipoprotein E; cortical morphometry; brain aging; individual differences; Alzheimer's disease
Effects of APOE genotype on age-related slopes of cortical thinning was estimated by measuring the thickness of the cerebral cortex on a point-by-point basis across the cortical mantle in 96 healthy non-demented volunteers aged 48-75 years. Fifty nine were APOE epsilon 4- (no epsilon 4 allele) and 37 were epsilon 4+ (1 or 2 epsilon 4 alleles). The genotype groups had similar age, sex and IQ. Two T-1-weighted MP-RAGE sequences were averaged for each participant to yield images with high signal-to-noise ratio, and quantified using semi-automated analysis tools. epsilon 4 carriers had thicker cortex than non-carriers in several frontal and temporal areas in both hemispheres, but showed a steeper age-related decline in adjacent areas. Upon comparison of the epsilon 4-specific age-related thinning with previously published patterns of thinning in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD), we conclude that APOE epsilon 4 may function to accelerate thinning in areas found to decline in aging (medial prefrontal and pericentral cortex), but also to initiate thinning in areas associated with AD and amyloid-beta aggregation (occipitotemporal and basal temporal cortex). (C) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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