Cytomegalovirus Is Present in a Very High Proportion of Brains from Vascular Dementia Patients

We previously found that herpes simplex type 1 virus (HSV1), when present in brain of carriers of the apolipoprotein E type 4 allele is a strong risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. To find if HSV1 or certain other herpesviruses are involved in vascular dementia (VaD), we searched post mortem b...

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Auteurs principaux: Woan-Ru Lin, Matthew A. Wozniak, Gordon K. Wilcock, Ruth F. Itzhaki
Format: Article
Langue:English
Publié: Elsevier 2002-02-01
Collection:Neurobiology of Disease
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Accès en ligne:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996101904656