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Comorbid Metabolic Syndrome And Prodromal Alzheimer's Disease In A Rat Model, Nadezda Ivanova
Comorbid Metabolic Syndrome And Prodromal Alzheimer's Disease In A Rat Model, Nadezda Ivanova
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Metabolic syndrome (MetS), the development of which is associated with high-caloric Western diet intake, represents a risk factor for mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and appears to contribute to AD progression when MetS and AD are comorbid. The interaction between AD and MetS might be through white matter inflammation, since white matter abnormalities and inflammation are important early events in the etiopathogenesis of both diseases. In these investigations, the effect of a high-caloric diet (HCD), to induce metabolic disturbances, on white matter neuroinflammation and cognitive function was investigated in a transgenic (TG) rat model of prodromal AD …