Glutathione metabolism during aging and in Alzheimer disease

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1019, Issue , 2004, Pages 346-349

  Liu, Honglei ^a   Wang, Hong ^a   Shenvi, Swapna ^b   Hagen, Tory M ^b   Liu, Rui Ming ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer disease; Estrogen; Gender; Glutamate cysteine ligase; Glutathione; glutamylcysteine synthetase

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GLUTATHIONE;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ESTROGEN THERAPY; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; HEART; HUMAN; LIVER; NONHUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; OVARIECTOMY; PARKINSON DISEASE; POSTMENOPAUSE;

MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 3242686012     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1297.059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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