Neurodegenerative Diseases and Metal Ions, Volume 1

Astrid Sigel (Editor), Helmut Sigel (Editor), Roland K. O. Sigel (Editor)

ISBN: 978-0-470-01488-2

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488 pages

May 2006

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HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE SERIES.

PREFACE TO VOLUME 1.

CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME 1.

TITLES OF VOLUMES 1–44 IN THE METAL IONS IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS SERIES.

CONTENTS OF VOLUMES IN THE METAL IONS IN LIFE SCIENCES SERIES.

1 THE ROLE OF METAL IONS IN NEUROLOGY. AN INTRODUCTION (Dorothea Strozyk and Ashley I. Bush).

2 PROTEIN FOLDING, MISFOLDING, AND DISEASE (Jennifer C. Lee, Judy E. Kim, Ekaterina V. Pletneva, Jasmin Faraone-Mennella, Harry B. Gray, and Jay R. Winkler).

3 METAL ION BINDING PROPERTIES OF PROTEINS RELATED TO NEURODEGENERATION (Henryk Kozlowski, Marek Luczkowski, Daniela Valensin, and Gianni Valensin).

4 METALLIC PRIONS: MINING THE CORE OF TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES (David R. Brown).

5 THE ROLE OF METAL IONS IN THE AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN AND IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE (Thomas A. Bayer and Gerd Multhaup).

6 THE ROLE OF IRON IN THE PATHOGENESIS OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE (Manfred Gerlach, Kay L. Double, Mario E. Götz, Moussa B. H. Youdim, and Peter Riederer).

7 IN VIVO ASSESSMENT OF IRON IN HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE AND OTHER AGE-RELATED NEURODEGENERATIVE BRAIN DISEASES (George Bartzokis, Po H. Lu, Todd A. Tishler, and Susan Perlman).

8 COPPER-ZINC SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE AND FAMILIAL AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (Lisa J. Whitson and P. John Hart).

9 THE MALFUNCTIONING OF COPPER TRANSPORT IN WILSON AND MENKES DISEASES (Bibudhendra Sarkar).

10 IRON AND ITS ROLE IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES (Roberta J. Ward and Robert R. Crichton).

11 THE CHEMICAL INTERPLAY BETWEEN CATECHOLAMINES AND METAL IONS IN NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES (Wolfgang Linert, Guy N. L. Jameson, Reginald F. Jameson, and Kurt A. Jellinger).

12 ZINC METALLONEUROCHEMISTRY: PHYSIOLOGY, PATHOLOGY, AND PROBES (Christopher J. Chang and Stephen J. Lippard).

13 THE ROLE OF ALUMINUM IN NEUROTOXIC AND NEURODEGENERATIVE PROCESSES (Tamás Kiss, Krisztina Gajda-Schrantz, and Paolo F. Zatta).

14 NEUROTOXICITY OF CADMIUM, LEAD, AND MERCURY (Hana R. Pohl, Henry G. Abadin, and John F. Risher).

15 NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES AND METAL IONS. A CONCLUDING OVERVIEW (Dorothea Strozyk and Ashley I. Bush).

SUBJECT INDEX.