Guest editor Paolo Zatta, CNR-Institute for Biomedical Technologies, Metalloproteins Unit, Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy, sets the stage for the special issue. "Metal ions are essential building blocks for life. However, they are also deeply implicated in pathological events related to their depletion or abnormal accumulation in human and animal tissues, mainly the brain, with consequent neurodegenerative phenomena," he writes in the foreword, dedicated to Professor Marino Nicolini. "In the last three decades abundant scientific literature has attributed an important role to metal ions in neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's (AD), Parkinson's, Huntingtons's, Menkes' and Wilson's diseases, as well as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, prion diseases and others."
The issue contains 11 research and review papers, a conference report from the 3rd International Conference on Metals and the Brain and the transcript of a live discussion among leading researchers in the field.
With papers covering iron and aluminum metabolism, zinc biochemistry, calcium and copper disorders, and other metal-related pathologies, this special issue provides key insights into the neurological effects of metals in the human body.
Table of Contents is below for Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, Volume 8, Issue 2
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Zinc dyshomeostasis: A key modulator of neuronal injury
Margherita Capasso, Jade-Ming Jeng, Marco Malavolta, Eugenio Mocchegiani, Stefano L. Sensi
Metallothionein-I-II and GFAP positivity in the brains from frontotemporal dementia patients
P. Zatta, P. Zambenedetti, M. Musicco, F. Adorni
Synergistic effects of iron and aluminum on stress-related gene expression in primary human neural cells
Peter N. Alexandrov, Yuhai Zhao, Aileen I. Pogue, Matthew A. Tarr, Theo P.A. Kruck, Maire E. Percy, Jian-Guo Cui, Walter J. Lukiw
Amyloid-â: Acute-phase apolipoprotein with metal-binding activity
Anatol Kontush
The role of MT in neurological disorders
Michael Aschner and Adrian K. West
Calcium in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis: Too much, too little or in the wrong place?
Lorella M.T. Canzoniero and B. Joy Snider
Is zinc the link between compromises of brain perfusion (excitotoxicity) and Alzheimer's disease?
Christopher J. Frederickson, Math P. Cuajungco, Cathleen J. Frederickson
Imbalance between pro-oxidant and pro-antioxidant functions of zinc in disease
Qiang Hao and Wolfgang Maret
Effects of aluminum on the nervous system and its possible link with neurodegenerative diseases
Masahiro Kawahara
Iron, neuroinflammation, and Alzheimer's disease
Wei-Yi Ong and Akhlaq A. Farooqui
Involvement of amyloid â precursor protein (AâPP) modulated copper homeostasis in Alzheimer's disease
Thomas A. Bayer and Gerd Multhaup
It's all in the metals: Report on the 3rd International Metals and Brain symposium at a combined meeting of the International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO), the Society of Neuroscientists of Africa (SONA), and the Collegium Internationale Neuro-psychopharmacologicum (CINP) in Cape Town, South Africa, 22 April 2005
Stefano L. Sensi and Susan van Rensburg
Discussion
Alzheimer Research Forum Live Discussion: Role and control of metal-mediated fibril toxicity
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