Alzheimer's disease (AD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) are aging-associated diseases that have rising prevalence in all industrialized countries. AD is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive loss of cognitive functions. It is a complex disease which formation involves both genetic factors and environmental factors. The most important marker associated with this disease is the risk allele ε4 in APOE gene. From the latest genome-wide association study emerged another ten candidate genes. As the most significant from those genes appears the minority G allele of rs744373 polymorphism in the gene BIN1. AD is connected with many metabolic and immune disorders. To the markers of interest belongs also the new parameter visfatin which can act as a pro-inflammatory cytokine. T2DM is a chronic disease characterized by raised levels of blood glucose, which is also characterized by neurological disorders. In the case of both of these diseases can be found a large number of metabolic disorders. One of the most important disorders is insulin resistance. This thesis consists of two parts - the biochemical and genetic one. The biochemical part of the thesis studies the visfatin level in patients with AD and healthly control and studies whether visfatin is related to AD. In this part of the...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:341370 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Vacínová, Gabriela |
| Contributors | Vaňková, Markéta, Lukášová, Petra |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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