19724

,

edited by Astrid Sigel, Helmut Sigel, and Roland K.O. Sigel

Wiley,

xxiii, 463 p. , ill. (some col.) , 24 cm.

Metal ions in life sciences,1559-0836 ;v. 1

The role of metal ions in neurology : an introduction / Dorothea Strozyk and Ashley I. Bush -- Protein folding, misfolding, and disease / Jennifer C. Lee ... [et al.] -- Metal ion binding properties of proteins related to neurodegeneration / Henryk Kozlowski ... [et al.] -- Metallic prions : mining the core of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies / David R. Brown -- The role of metal ions in the amyloid precursor protein and in Alzheimerʹs disease / Thomas A. Bayer and Gerd Multhaup -- The role of iron in the pathogenesis of Parkinsonʹs disease / Manfred Gerlach ... [et al.] -- In vivo assessment of iron in Huntingtonʹs disease and other age-related neurodegenerative brain diseases / George Bartzokis ... [et al.] -- Copper-zinc superoxide dismutase and familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / Lisa J. Whitson and P. John Hart --,The malfunctioning of copper transport in Wilson and Menkes diseases / Bibudhendra Sarkar -- Iron and its role in neurodegenerative diseases / Roberta J. Ward and Robert R. Crichton -- The chemical interplay between catecholamines and metal ions in neurological diseases / Wolfgang Linert ... [et al.] -- Zinc metalloneurochemistry : physiology, pathology, and probes / Christopher J. Chang and Stephen J. Lippard -- The role of aluminum in neurotoxic and neurodegenerative processes / Tamaas Kiss, Krisztina Gajda-Schrantz, and Paolo F. Zatta -- Neurotoxicity of cadmium, lead, and mercury / Hana R. Pohl, Henry G. Abadin, and John F. Risher -- Neurodegenerative diseases and metal ions : a concluding overview / Dorothea Strozyk and Ashley I. Bush.

AU Sigel, Astrid. , AU Sigel, Helmut. , AU Sigel, Roland K. O.

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365

.N454

2006

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1389/06/17

0470014881 (cloth : alk. paper) ,

Includes bibliographical references and index.

c2006