Do vascular subcortical hyperintensities predict conversion to vascular and mixed dementia in MCI patients?
The risk of vascular or mixed dementia, but not of other types of dementia, was significantly increased in MCI patients with a large amount of subcortical hyperintensities at baseline.
These results unveil a critical role for TGF-β1 in the progression of mucoepidermoid carcinomas and suggest that patients with this malignancy may benefit from therapeutic inhibition of the effectors of the TGF-β1 pathway.