Oxidative Neural Injury

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Veasey, Sigrid C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2009.
• Series: Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Neurosciences.; Neurology.; Biochemistry.; Neurobiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Biochemistry, general.; Human Physiology.

Edited by Sigrid Veasey, M.D. Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology Department of Medicine University of Pennsylvania Oxidative changes are observed in healthy aging of the nervous system, neurodegenerative processes and other forms of neural injury. At the same time, reactive oxygen species...

Table of Contents:

• Reactive Oxygen Species, Synaptic Plasticity, and Memory
• Nitric Oxide Biochemistry: Pathophysiology of Nitric Oxide-Mediated Protein Modifications
• Redox Imbalance in the Endoplasmic Reticulum
• Exocytosis, Mitochondrial Injury and Oxidative Stress in Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Neuronal Vulnerability to Oxidative Damage in Aging
• Ischemia-Reperfusion Induces ROS Production from Three Distinct Sources
• Alzheimer Disease: Oxidative Stress and Compensatory Responses
• Oxidative Stress Associated Signal Transduction Cascades in Alzheimer Disease
• Nitrated Proteins in the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease: A Proteomics Comparison of Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer’s Disease Brain
• Parkinson’s Disease: An Overview of Pathogenesis
• Protein Oxidation Triggers the Unfolded Protein Response and Neuronal Injury in Chemically Induced Parkinson Disease
• Treating Oxidative Neural Injury: Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease.