Search Results - "Huntington's disease"

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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Metal-based neurodegeneration : from molecular mechanisms to therapeutic strategies / by Crichton, Robert R.

Table of 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.…”
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Psychiatric aspects of neurologic diseases practical approaches to patient care /

Table of Contents: “…Carroll -- Epilepsy / Laura Marsh -- Parkinson's disease / Laura Marsh -- Alzheimer's disease / Martin Steinberg -- Frontotemporal dementia / David M. Blass -- Huntington's disease / Adam Rosenblatt -- Cerebellar diseases / Russell L. …”
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Advances in neuropharmacology : drugs and therapeutics /

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The therapeutic properties of medicinal plants : health-rejuvenating bioactive compounds of native flora /

Table of Contents: “…Mahady -- Antimicrobial Compounds from Medicinal Plants: Effects on Antibiotic Resistance to Human Pathogens / Olutoyin Omolara Bamigboye and Idowu Jesulayomi Adeosun -- Plant-Based Natural Products Against Huntington's Disease: Preclinical and Clinical Studies / Banadipa Nanda, Samapika Nandy, Anuradha Mukherjee, and Abhijit Dey -- Pathophysiology and Management of Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS) / Kushal Kumar, Kalpana Kumari Barwal, and Sunil Kumar Hota -- Antihelmintic Properties of Allium sativum L.: Effect on Fecal Egg Count of West African Dwarf (WAD) Rams / Azeez Olanrewaju Yusuf and Ganiyat Abiola Oladunmoye -- Buriti (Mauritia flexuosa L.) …”
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Merritt's neurology.

Table of Contents: “…Head injury -- Spine injury -- Cranial and peripheral nerve lesions -- Complex regional pain syndrome -- Radiation injury -- Electrical and lightning injury -- Decompression sickness -- Intervertebral dics and radiculopathy -- Cervical spondylotic myelopathy -- Thoracic outlet syndrome -- Hereditary and acquired spastic paraplegia -- Syringomyelia -- Neonatal neurology -- Floppy infant syndrome -- Disorders of motor and mental development -- Autism spectrum disorders -- Laurence-Moon-Biedl syndrome -- Cerebral and spinal malformations -- Chromosomal diseases -- Marcus Gunn -- Möbius syndrome -- Disorders of amino acid metabolism -- Disorders of purine and pyrimidine metabolism -- Lysosomal and other storage diseases -- Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism -- Glucose transporter type 1 deficiency syndrome -- Disorders of DNA maintenance, transcription, and translation -- Hyperammonemia -- Peroxisomal diseases: adrenoleukodystrophy, zellweger syndrome, and refsum disease -- Organic acidurias -- Disorders of metal metabolism -- Acute intermittent porphyria -- Neurologic syndromes with acanthocytes -- Cerebral degenerations of childhood -- Diffuse sclerosis and vanishing white matter disease -- Mitochondrial encephalomyopathies: diseases of mitochondrial DNA -- Leber hereditary optic neuropathy -- Mitochondrial diseases with mutations of nuclear DNA -- Neurofibromatosis -- Tuberous sclerosis complex -- Encephalotrigeminal angiomatosis -- Incontinentia pigmenti -- General considerations -- Alzheimer disease -- Frontotemporal dementia -- Lewy body dementias -- Huntington disease -- Choreas -- Myoclonus -- Gilles de la tourette syndrome -- Dystonia -- Essential tremor -- Parkinson disease -- Parkinson-plus syndromes -- Paroxysmal dyskinesias -- Tradive dyskinesia and other neuroleptic-induced syndromes -- Autosomal recessive ataxias -- Autosomal dominant ataxias -- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, progressive muscular atrophy, and primary lateral sclerosis -- Kennedy disease -- Spinal muscular atrophies of childhood -- Monomelic muscular atrophy -- General considerations -- The inherited peripheral neuropathies -- Acquired neuropathies -- Neuropathic pain -- Myasthenia gravis -- Lambert-Eaton syndrome -- Botulism and antibiotic-induced neuromuscular disorders -- Critical illness myopathy and neuropathy -- Identifying disorders of the motor unit --…”
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