کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4346936 1296811 2009 4 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Heme-a, the heme prosthetic group of cytochrome c oxidase, is increased in Alzheimer's disease
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علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب (عمومی)
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Heme-a, the heme prosthetic group of cytochrome c oxidase, is increased in Alzheimer's disease
چکیده انگلیسی

Heme-a, is the heme prosthetic group of cytochrome c oxidase (COX), the terminal complex of the mitochondrial electron transport chain. We measured heme-a levels in postmortem brain tissue from nine patients diagnosed with dementia: Alzheimer's disease (AD) was the primary diagnosis in five, AD/diffuse Lewy body disease (DLBD) was diagnosed in two, DLBD was diagnosed in one, and DLBD (severe)/AD (mild) was diagnosed in one. Eight non-demented patients who died from non-neurological causes served as controls. When the primary diagnosis was AD (AD and AD/DLBD), levels of cerebral heme-a were increased almost two-fold on a protein basis compared to controls (p < 0.001). Using perfused and non-perfused rats we showed that measured levels of cerebral heme-a were unaffected by the presence of blood in brain tissue. In mice we showed that levels of cerebral heme-a were unaffected by 24 h of storage at 4 °C prior to freezing. These animal studies suggest that increased levels of cerebral heme-a in AD were not due to blood in postmortem brain or variation in postmortem interval.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Neuroscience Letters - Volume 461, Issue 3, 15 September 2009, Pages 302–305
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