Alzheimer's disease

Summary
Synonym
  • Alzheimer disease
  • Alzheimers dementia
Definition
A tauopathy that is characterized by memory lapses, confusion, emotional instability and progressive loss of mental ability and results in progressive memory loss, impaired thinking, disorientation, and changes in personality and mood starting and leads in advanced cases to a profound decline in cognitive and physical functioning and is marked histologically by the degeneration of brain neurons especially in the cerebral cortex and by the presence of neurofibrillary tangles and plaques containing beta-amyloid.
Super Class
tauopathy
Disease Ontology
DOID:10652
Mondo Disease Ontology
MeSH
UMLS
NCI Thesaurus
GARD
MGI genotype (from TogoID)
WikiPathways (from TogoID)
Related Genes
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Gene ID Gene Symbol Description Source
11820 App amyloid beta precursor protein
16971 Lrp1 low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1
17380 Mme membrane metallo endopeptidase
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Gene ID Gene Symbol Description Source
31002 Appl beta amyloid protein precursor-like
32342 amrt amaretto
37443 bisc biscotti
40260 Psn Presenilin
42964 Nct Nicastrin
43869 amx almondex
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Gene ID Gene Symbol Description Source
176282 lin-12 lin-12/Notch intracellular domain
180783 apl-1 Amyloid-beta-like protein
Displaying 1 entry
Gene ID Gene Symbol Description Source
855897 HRR25 serine/threonine protein kinase HRR25
Related Glycoprotein
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UniProt ID Protein Name Source
P29295 Casein kinase I homolog HRR25

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