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RESEARCHER INFORMATION
First Name:Andrew
Last Name:McCaddon
Title:Dr
Advanced Degrees:BSc(Hons) MB ChB MRCGP MD
Affiliation:University of Wales College of Medicine
Department:General Practice
Street Address 1:Gardden Road Surgery
Street Address 2:Rhosllanerchrugog
City:Wrexham
State/Province:Wales
Zip/Postal Code:LL14 2EN
Country/Territory:United Kingdom
Phone:01978 840034
Fax:01978 845782
Email Address: 
Disclosure:
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Member reports the following financial or other potential conflicts of interest: [Last Modified: 6 June 2005]

I am a Scientific Advisor and shareholder of COBALZ Limited (www.cobalz.co.uk), a UK-based company developing glutathionylcobalamin as an alternative orally available form of vitamin B12.
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Clinical Interests:
Aging Process, Alzheimer Disease
Research Focus:
Oxidative Stress, Chemistry/Pharmacology, Epidemiology, Homocysteine, Neurobiology
Work Sector(s):
University
Web Sites:
Personal: http://www.cobalz.co.uk
Researcher Bio
General Practioner in North Wales with an interest in the association between Alzheimer's disease and disturbances of single-carbon metabolism (ie folate/B12 deficiencies)
Top Papers
1: McCaddon A, Regland B, Hudson P, Davies G. Functional vitamin B(12) deficiency and Alzheimer disease.
Neurology. 2002 May 14;58(9):1395-9.
PMID: 12011287 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

2: McCaddon A, Blennow K, Hudson P, Regland B, Hill D.
Transcobalamin polymorphism and homocysteine.
Blood. 2001 Dec 1;98(12):3497-9.
PMID: 11732507 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

3: McCaddon A, Hudson P, Davies G, Hughes A, Williams JH, Wilkinson C. Homocysteine and cognitive decline in healthy elderly.
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 2001 Sep-Oct;12(5):309-13.
PMID: 11455131 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

4: McCaddon A, Hudson P, Abrahamsson L, Olofsson H, Regland B. Analogues, ageing and aberrant assimilation of vitamin B12 in Alzheimer's disease. Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord. 2001 Mar-Apr;12(2):133-7.
PMID: 11173886 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

5: McCaddon A, Davies G, Hudson P. Nutritionally independent B12 deficiency and Alzheimer disease.
Arch Neurol. 2000 Apr;57(4):607-8. No abstract available.
PMID: 10768642 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

6: McCaddon A, Davies G, Hudson P, Tandy S, Cattell H. Total serum homocysteine in senile dementia of Alzheimer type. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 1998 Apr;13(4):235-9.
PMID: 9646150 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

7: McCaddon A, Regland B, Fear CF. Trypsin inhibition: a potential cause of cobalamin deficiency common to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer-type dementia and AIDS dementia complex?
Med Hypotheses. 1995 Aug;45(2):200-4. Review.
PMID: 8531843 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

8: McCaddon A, Kelly CL. Related Articles
Familial Alzheimer's disease and vitamin B12 deficiency. Age Ageing. 1994 Jul;23(4):334-7.
PMID: 7976784 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

9: Kennedy AM, Newman S, McCaddon A, Ball J, Roques P, Mullan M, Hardy J, Chartier-Harlin MC, Frackowiak RS, Warrington EK, et al. Familial Alzheimer's disease. A pedigree with a mis-sense mutation in the amyloid precursor protein gene (amyloid precursor protein 717 valine-->glycine).
Brain. 1993 Apr;116 ( Pt 2):309-24.
PMID: 8461968 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

10: McCaddon A, Kelly CL. Alzheimer's disease: a 'cobalaminergic' hypothesis.
Med Hypotheses. 1992 Mar;37(3):161-5. Review.
PMID: 1350050 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

What is the greatest void to date in our knowledge of Alzheimer's Disease?
The "key-events" or trigger factor(s) underlying this pathological cascade.

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