(Press-News.org) Normal ageing might be associated with increased blood-brain barrier permeability in regions also vulnerable in Alzheimer's Disease, in small study comparing healthy brains of the young and old
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0299764
Article Title: Associations between regional blood-brain barrier permeability, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers in cognitively normal older adults
Author Countries: USA
Funding: Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute On Aging of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number F31AG072872 and R01 AG080043. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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Normal ageing might be associated with increased blood-brain barrier permeability in regions also vulnerable in Alzheimer's Disease, in small study comparing healthy brains of the young and old
2024-06-05
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