Cerebrospinal Fluid Tissue Transglutaminase as a Biochemical Marker for Alzheimer's Disease

Tissue transglutaminase (tTG) is an indicator of acute cell death in vitro. An increase in tTG protein level is found in postmortem Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains as well as in Huntington's disease. No study revealed tTG in vivo so far. We investigated the concentrations of tTG in the cer...

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Main Authors: Raphael M. Bonelli, Andreas Aschoff, Gerald Niederwieser, Clemens Heuberger, Gustaf Jirikowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2002-10-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996102905358