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Alzheimer's disease--a dysfunction in cholesterol and lipid metabolism.

Lukiw WJ, Pappolla M, Pelaez RP, Bazan NG

LSU Neuroscience Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, 2020 Gravier Street, Suite 8D, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70112-2272, USA. wlukiw@lsuhsc.edu

1. Strong etiological association exists between dysfunctional metabolism of brain lipids, age-related changes in the cerebral vasculature and neurodegenerative features characteristic of Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain. 2. In this short review, recent experimental evidence for these associations is further discussed below.

Published 2 August 2005 in Cell Mol Neurobiol, 25(3): 475-83.
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