Metal-based neurodegeneration : from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic strategies /
Crichton, Robert R.
Ward, Roberta J.
Chichester : John Wiley & Sons,
2014.
Previous ed.: 2005/06.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Brain function, physiology, and the blood-brain barrier -- Role of metal ions in brain function, metal transport, storage, and homeostasis -- Immune system and neuroinflammation -- Oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases -- Aging and mild cognitive impairment, MCI -- Parkinson's disease -- Alzheimer's disease -- Huntington's disease and polyglutamine expansion neurodegenerative diseases -- Friedreich's ataxia and diseases associated with expansion of non-coding triplets -- Creutzfeldt-Jakob and other prion diseases -- Amyotropic lateral sclerosis -- Alcoholic brain damage -- Other neurological diseases -- Therapeutic strategies to combat the onset and progression of neurological diseases.
Nervous system
Brain
Oxidative stress.
Metals
Metal-based neurodegeneration