Neurodegenerative diseases and metal ions
By: edited by Astrid Sigel, Helmut Sigel, and Roland K.O. Sigel.
Contributors: Sigel, Astrid.; Sigel, Helmut.; Sigel, Roland K. O.
Series: Metal ions in life sciences ;; v. 1
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, England; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9780470014882
Subjects: Nervous system -- Degeneration; Nervous system -- Diseases; Metal ions -- Health aspects; Neurodegenerative Diseases -- chemically induced; Metals -- adverse effects; Metals -- metabolism; Prion Diseases -- chemically induced; Protein Folding
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The role of metal ions in neurology : an introduction / Dorothea Strozyk and Ashley I. Bush; title: Protein folding, misfolding, and disease / Jennifer C. Lee ... [et al.]; title: Metal ion binding properties of proteins related to neurodegeneration / Henryk Kozlowski ... [et al.]; title: Metallic prions : mining the core of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies / David R. Brown; title: The role of metal ions in the amyloid precursor protein and in Alzheimer's disease / Thomas A. Bayer and Gerd Multhaup; title: The role of iron in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease / Manfred Gerlach ... [et al.]; title: In vivo assessment of iron in Huntington's disease and other age-related neurodegenerative brain diseases / George Bartzokis ... [et al.]; title: Copper-zinc superoxide dismutase and familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / Lisa J. Whitson and P. John Hart; title: The malfunctioning of copper transport in Wilson and Menkes diseases / Bibudhendra Sarkar; title: Iron and its role in neurodegenerative diseases / Roberta J. Ward and Robert R. Crichton; title: The chemical interplay between catecholamines and metal ions in neurological diseases / Wolfgang Linert ... [et al.]; title: Zinc metalloneurochemistry : physiology, pathology, and probes / Christopher J. Chang and Stephen J. Lippard; title: The role of aluminum in neurotoxic and neurodegenerative processes / Tam S. Kiss, Krisztina Gajda-Schrantz, and Paolo Zatta; title: Neurotoxicity of cadmium, lead, and mercury / Hana R. Pohl, Henry G. Abadin, and John F. Risher; title: Neurodegenerative diseases and metal ions : a concluding overview / Dorothea Strozyk and Ashley I. Bush.