Metal-based Neurodegeneration:From Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Strategies
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Chichester ;Hoboken, NJ :
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J. Wiley & Sons,
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c2006.
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x, 227 p. :ill.
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مرجع به حساب نمي آيد
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Metals in brain, metal transport, storage and homeostasis -- Oxidative stress and redox-active metal ions -- 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 -- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Other neurological diseases -- Therapeutic strategies to combat the onset and progression of neurodegenerative diseases -- Animal models of the various neurodegenerative diseases -- Concluding remarks.