[The presence of memory impairment and cognitive deficits in the Alzheimer's disease (AD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and Pick's disease (PiD) has been associated to dysfunction of cholinergic transmission, possibly due to the loss of cholinergic neurons and to the elimination of nAChR in dementia patients.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE