| Edition |
Second edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (469 pages) : illustrations |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 7, 2013). |
| Subject |
Brain -- Pathophysiology.
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Metals -- Health aspects.
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Nervous system -- Degeneration -- Etiology.
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Oxidative stress.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Ward, Roberta J.
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| ISBN |
9781119977148 (cloth) |
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9781118553497 (electronic bk.) |
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