Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction:
Chapter I – Impact of Intracellular Aβ amyloid Peptide in Health and Disease; pp. 1-8
(Claudio Cuello, McGill University, Canada)
Chapter II – Soluble Aβ Oligomers in Alzheimer’s Disease; pp. 9-24
(N. Marcelo, Fernanda G. De Felice, William L. Klein, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Chapter III – Inhibitory Effects of Aβ-amyloid Aggregates on Synaptic Transmission in Hippocampal Neurons; pp. 25-37
(L.G.Aguayo, J. Parodi, F.J. Sepúlveda, Universidad de Concepción)
Chapter IV – Role of LIMK1 in Neuronal Degeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease; pp. 39-49
(Alfredo Lorenzo, Lorena Heredia, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)
Chapter V – Amyloid-B-Peptide Activates the Neuronal C-ABL Tyrosine Kinsae/ P73 Signaling Transduction Pathway; pp. 51-61
(Gonzalo I. Cancino, Alejandra R. Alvarez, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Chapter VI – Neuroprotection by Astrocytes Involves Multiple Regulatory Mechanisms; pp. 63-82
(R. von Bernhardi, G. Ramírez, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Chapter VII – Wnt Signaling and its Importance in Alzheimer’s Disease; pp. 83-91
(N.C. Inestrosa, M. Colombresi, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Chapter VIII – Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 (GSK-3) As A Molecular Target for Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Tauopathies; pp. 93-110
(Miguel Medina, Neuropharma S.A., Tres Cantos, Spain)
Chapter IX – Inverse Association Between Cancer and Dementia of the Alzheimer’s Type; pp. 111-120
(María I. Behrens, Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, Catherine M. Roe, John C Morris, Washington University, USA)
Chapter X – Wnt Signalling in Spinal cord Connectivity: Towards Regeneration of the Central Nervous System?; pp. 121-131
(Juan Pablo Henriquez, Universidad de Concepción, Chile)
Chapter XI – Protein Nitrotyrosination in Alzheimer’s Disease;
pp. 133-143
(Francesc X. Guix, Mireia Coma, Gerard Ill-Raga, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Chapter XII – The Ryanodine Receptors / Calcium Release Channels as Neuronal Redox Sensors; pp. 145-158
(Cecilia Hidalgo, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, S. Pablo Muñoz, Marco T. Núñez, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile)
Chapter XIII – Reactive Oxygen Species Signaling in the Hippocampus; pp. 159-168
(Faridis Serrano, Baylor College of Medicine, USA, Eric Klann, Center for Neural Science, New York University, USA)
Chapter XIV – Role of Copper in Alzheimer‘s Disease and other Neuropathological Disorders; pp. 169-176
(Gerd Multhaup, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Thomas A. Bayer, Department of Psychiatry, Saarland University, Germany)
Chapter XV – Zn2+-protein Interactions in Normal Brain Physiology and Neuropathology; pp. 177-187
(C. Opazo, Universidad de Concepción and Program of Basic and Translational Neuroscience, P. Castro, J. Waldron, Universidad de Concepción)
Chapter XVI – Iron Toxicity: A Critical Review on its Role in Parkinson’s Disease; pp. 189-204
(Daniel Bórquez, Pamela Valdés, Marco T. Núñez, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de Chile, Chile)
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