Friday, October 26, 2018

Journal Club presented by Roger Albin, MD, Topic: Air pollution and dementia ~~~~~~~ Friday, October 26th, 2018

11:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Room 4515, Biomedical Science Research Building (BSRB), 109 Zina Pitcher Place, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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First bimonthly Journal Club, hosted by the Michigan Alzheimer’s Disease Center-This month's group discussion will be "Air Pollution and dementia".

This is the first bimonthly Journal Club hosted by the Michigan Alzheimer’s Disease Center. The group will discuss the topic of air pollution and dementia. The articles are listed below and attached.

  • Cacciottolo, et al., “Particulate air pollutants, APOE alleles and their contributions to cognitive impairment in older women and to amyloidogenesis in experimental models”
  • Calderón-Garcidueñas, et al., “DNA Damage in Nasal and Brain Tissues of Canines Exposed to Air Pollutants is Associated with Evidence of Chronic Brain Inflammation and Neurodegeneration”
  • Chen, et al., “Living near major roads and the incidence of dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis: a population-based cohort study”

Articles:

Hong Chen, Jeff rey C Kwong, Ray Copes, Karen Tu, Paul J Villeneuve, Aaron van Donkelaar, Perry Hystad, Randall V Martin, Brian J Murray, Barry Jessiman, Andrew S Wilton, Alexander Kopp, Richard T Burnett

LILIAN CALDER´ON-GARCIDUE˜NAS, ROBERT R. MARONPOT, RICARDO TORRES-JARDON, CARLOS HENR´ıQUEZ-ROLD´AN, ROBERT SCHOONHOVEN, HILDA ACU˜NA-AYALA, ANNA VILLARREAL-ALDER´ON, JUN NAKAMURA, RESHAN FERNANDO, WILLIAM REED, BIAGIO AZZARELLI, AND JAMES A. SWENBERG

M Cacciottolo, X Wang, I Driscoll, N Woodward, A Saffari, J Reyes, ML Serre, W Vizuete, C Sioutas, TE Morgan, M Gatz, HC Chui, SA Shumaker, SM Resnick, MA Espeland, CE Finch, and JC Chen