Bile acid synthesis, modulation, and dementia: A metabolomic, transcriptomic, and pharmacoepidemiologic study.

<h4>Background</h4>While Alzheimer disease (AD) and vascular dementia (VaD) may be accelerated by hypercholesterolemia, the mechanisms underlying this association are unclear. We tested whether dysregulation of cholesterol catabolism, through its conversion to primary bile acids (BAs), w...

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Main Authors: Vijay R Varma, Youjin Wang, Yang An, Sudhir Varma, Murat Bilgel, Jimit Doshi, Cristina Legido-Quigley, João C Delgado, Anup M Oommen, Jackson A Roberts, Dean F Wong, Christos Davatzikos, Susan M Resnick, Juan C Troncoso, Olga Pletnikova, Richard O'Brien, Eelko Hak, Brenda N Baak, Ruth Pfeiffer, Priyanka Baloni, Siamak Mohmoudiandehkordi, Kwangsik Nho, Rima Kaddurah-Daouk, David A Bennett, Shahinaz M Gadalla, Madhav Thambisetty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-05-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1003615