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Physicians should keep in mind that Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease can show bilateral lymphadenopathy like the present case.
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Infecciones por Virus de Epstein-Barr/virología , Herpesvirus Humano 4/fisiología , Enfermedad de Hodgkin/virología , MicroARNs/genética , Factores de Transcripción/genética , Adulto , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Femenino , Eliminación de Gen , Humanos , Ganglios Linfáticos/virología , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Familia de Multigenes , Adulto JovenRESUMEN
Perturbation of the homeostasis of brain membrane lipids has been implicated in the pathomechanism of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The ε4 allele of the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) confers an increased risk, in a dosage-dependent manner, for brain amyloid-ß accumulation and the development of sporadic AD. An effect of the APOE genotype on brain lipid homeostasis may underlie the AD risk associated with the ε4 allele. In this research, we examined an effect of APOE ε4 on the lipid class composition of crude membranes and raft-enriched fractions of brains. We applied enzymatic reaction-based methods for the quantification of phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylserine, phosphatidic acid, and sphingomyelin. Our results indicate that brain lipid class composition was neither significantly altered in AD subjects nor affected by the presence of the APOE ε4 allele.