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JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY NEUROSURGERY AND PSYCHIATRY
卷 68, 期 1, 页码 93-96出版社
BRITISH MED JOURNAL PUBL GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.68.1.93
关键词
apolipoprotein E; ApoE; Alzheimer's disease; hippocampus; asymmetry; magnetic resonance imaging
资金
- NIA NIH HHS [AG10182] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [P30AG010182] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Asymmetry of brain structures is common to many species and is even present in utero. Some developmental, pathological, and dementing diseases are associated with alterations in normal anatomical asymmetries. Anatomical asymmetries, however, have been only superficially studied in Alzheimer's disease. Recent evidence indicates that the allele epsilon 4 of the apolipoprotein E (ApoE), a well known risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, might play a part in determining some brain morphological changes both in normal carriers and in patients with Alzheimer's disease. This study evaluated the effect of the ApoE genotype on hippocampal asymmetry in patients with Alzheimer's disease carrying 0, 1, and 2 copies of the allele. Volumetric right-left differences of the hippocampi were computed in 28 right handed patients with Alzheimer's disease (14 -/-, 9 epsilon 4/-, and 5 epsilon 4/4) and 30 controls without detectable cognitive deficit. In controls, the right hippocampus was larger than the left, whereas in patients with Alzheimer's disease this asymmetry was progressively reduced with increasing gene dose of the epsilon 4 allele, and asymmetry was reversed in the epsilon 4/4 Alzheimer's disease group. The mean right-left volume differences were: 1.2, 0.7, 0.2, and -1.0 in controls, -1-, epsilon 4/-, and epsilon 4/4 patients, respectively (sex adjusted p for trend=0.017). The data indicate a dose dependent effect of the ApoE epsilon 4 allele on hippocampal volume asymmetry in Alzheimer's disease.
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