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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Alessandro Prigione
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-42492 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
BMC genomics 20150214
<h4>Background</h4>Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex, irreversible neurodegenerative disorder. At present there are neither reliable markers to diagnose AD at an early stage nor therapy. To investigate underlying disease mechanisms, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) allow the generation of patient-derived neuronal cells in a dish.<h4>Results</h4>In this study, employing iPS technology, we derived and characterized iPSCs from dermal fibroblasts of an 82-year-old female patient affected b ...[more]