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COMMUNITY NEWS 1999-06-10 Community News Genetic testing for the ApoE allele should not be used to aid diagnosis of the sporadic form of Alzheimer's disease, concludes a Stanford University biomedical ethics committee. The E4 variant of the ApoE gene elevates a person's
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-06-08 Research News The "cholinergic hypothesis" of cognition places emphasis on the role of cholinergic neurons in the basal forebrain and their projections to cortical areas. This hypothesis is based to a large extent on findings that this system is
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-06-01 Research News Hopes have been raised that drugs which inhibit the proinflammatory COX-2 enzyme could be effective in treating rheumatoid arthritis and perhaps also Alzheimer's disease, which many scientists think is exacerbated by inflammatory respon
COMMENT The final sentences of the Alzheimer Research Forum News Summary leaves the impression that the cause of the disparity is due to differences in the statistical methods used. In fact, this is not at all correct. The Rogaeva et al paper used the SAME family
COMMENT Response from Rudy Tanzi In Peter Hyslop's reply to the Alzheimer Forum News article on "A2M Revisited," he states: "The Rogaeva et al paper used the SAME family based association statistical methods as Blacker et al (ie the SDT and s-
COMMENT Thanks for summarizing the three new A2M genetics papers and our reply in Nature Genetics (May 1999) in your "News" section this month. I wanted to share my thoughts on the controversy regarding the candidacy of A2M as a genetic risk factor for
COMMENT Response from Allen Roses et al. to Tanzi Comment Below please find a short, absolute rebuttal to the comments made by Rudy Tanzi. It is followed by a fairly detailed commentary on each point, including copies of relevant dated correspondence that clarify
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-05-06 Research News Last year Deborah Blacker, Rudolph Tanzi and their colleagues reported finding a strong association between a deletion of exon 18 in the gene for α2 macroglobulin (A2M) and Alzheimer's disease. The odds ratio was 3.56, comparable to the
WEBINAR 1999-05-05 Peter Nelson, with Dennis Selkoe, John Hardy, and Alain Israel, led this live discussion on 5 May 1999. Readers are invited to submit additional comments by using our Comments form at the bottom of the page. Transcript: Live discussion with Dennis Selkoe,
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-05-03 Research News Evidence from several sources suggests that the dorsal hippocampus is critical for the formation and storage of spatial information. In the long term, such information is believed to be transferred to the neocortex for storage. While it is a
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-04-30 Research News The armadillo gene-so named because its mutated form in fruit flies produces a phenotype with short spiky hairs, reminiscent of those on the armadillo-codes for a protein that is a homologue of the human β-catenin. These proteins and other,
COMMENT Inflammation, free radicals, and cytokines are involved in a vascular cascade producing the transformation of macrophages into foam cells between the endothelial cell layer and the basement membrane of a blood vessel leading to formation of an atheroscler
RESEARCH NEWS 1999-04-28 Research News Atherosclerotic processes are drawing the attention of some Alzheimer's researchers who point to a number of links between atherosclerotic disease and Alzheimer's disease. It is only natural then, that vitamin E, a hot topic in the
COMMENT Reply by Steven Barger Regardless of whether presenilins really are γ-secretases (for which the data seem to tipping the scales), the data seem quite clear that they are somehow involved in proteolytic processing of both APP and Notch. To me, one of the m
COMMENT Reply by E. Preddie and J. Bergmann 1. Considering what was known before, the nature of the experiments done by Wolfe and colleagues and the results obtained, it appears that the conclusion expressed by 'Ye' et al from their results is equally v
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