Alzheimer disease: mercury as pathogenetic factor and apolipoprotein E as a moderator
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...Claims have been made that mercury released from amalgam may cause or exacerbate chronic degenerative diseases of the nervous system such as Alzheimer’s disease (Mutter et al., 2004)....
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...…for low-dose mercury tox Godfrey et al., 2003) and rise in apolipoprotein-E du o mercury has been advocated as a pathogenic fact lzheimer disease (Mutter et al., 2004; Godfrey et al., 200) Table 3). able 3 rief summary of molecular mechanisms of low doses of mercury tox 1 Enhanced free radical…...
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...[13] Mutter J, Naumann J, Sadaghiani C, Schneider R, Walach H....
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...There have been claims that mercury may nduce Alzheimer’s disease [13] as brains from Alzheimer’s disease atients contained elevated amounts of mercury [14]....
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...Apolipoprotein E is a lipid transport protein regulating uptake and excretion of lipids, and it is normally only considered in this capacity [ 23 ]....
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...APOE occurs in three genetic variants which are determined on chromosome 19: APOE2, APOE3 and APOE4 [ 23 ]....
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...At position 112 and 158, different amino acids occur: Apolipoprotein E2 contains 2 cysteines, apolipoprotein E3 contains 1 cysteine and 1 arginine, and apolipoprotein E4 contains 2 arginines [ 23 ]....
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...Major human sources of mercury include fish con sumption [36, 37], dental amalgams [38} and vaccines [ 36 ]....
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...Major human sources of mercury include fish con sumption [ 36 , 37], dental amalgams [38} and vaccines [36]....
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