Metal-based neurodegeneration : from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic strategies / Robert Crichton and Roberta Ward.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : Wiley, 2014Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resource (469 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 616.8/0471 23
LOC classification:
  • RC365 .C75 2014eb
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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