Neurodegenerative diseases and oxidatives stress

Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 205-214

  Barnham, Kevin J ^a   Masters, Colin L ^a   Bush, Ashley I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; AMANTADINE; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; ANTIOXIDANT; CATALASE; CLIOQUINOL; COPPER; DEFEROXAMINE; DOPAMINE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; MEMANTINE; NEUROTROPHIN; OXYGEN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RILUZOLE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRIENTINE; METAL;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CELL KILLING; CELL LOSS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG PENETRATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FRIEDREICH ATAXIA; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; WILSON DISEASE; ANIMAL; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CLIOQUINOL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; METALS; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES;

EID: 1642308134     PISSN: 14741776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrd1330     Document Type: Review

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