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Prion diseases

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Understanding the biophysical aspects of a disease of protein misfolding -- Structural studies of PrPc and PrPsc -- The development of synthetic mammalian prions and the proof of their infectivity and serial transmissibility -- Heterocyclic pharmacotherapies for prion disease -- Pyridinyl based therapies and structure based design -- Serendipitous discovery of acridines as anti-prion agents -- Bisacridines as potent inhibitors of prion replication in cell culture -- The relationship between the prion diseases and other diseases of protein misfolding.…”
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Roles for Hsp40 molecular chaperones in protein misfolding disease

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Protein aggregation in conformational disease -- The Hsp40 system -- The Hsp70 system -- Small oligomers, prion, yeast, Huntington's disease and protein triage -- Mechanisms for proteotoxicity -- Mechanisms for amyloid disease.…”
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Protein aggregation, metals and oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Introduction to protein conformational brain diseases -- Alzheimer's disease, A-beta and tau -- A-beta oligomers and toxicity -- A-beta generates hydrogen peroxide -- Results from experiments using electron spin resonance spectroscopy -- Parkinson's disease -- Generation of hydrogen peroxide from alpha synuclein, toxic fragments of the prion protein and the familial British dementia peptide -- Early oligomers appear to generate hydrogen peroxide -- Huntington's disease -- Protein aggregates could be protective -- Potential common toxic pathway for these brain diseases.…”
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