Thursday, January 21, 2016

Mitochondrial DNA differentiates Alzheimer from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Low content of cell-free mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a biomarker of early stage Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but whether mtDNA is altered in a rapid neurodegenerative dementia such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is unknown.

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