Frontiers in Neurodegenerative Disorders and Aging: Fundamental Aspects, Clinical Perspectives and New Insights

Proceedings of a May 2003 conference held in Antalya, Turkey, bringing together an array of international experts in aging and neurodegenerative disease. Twenty-one contributions present up-to- date information about new developments in biomedical sciences research and cover a wide range of issues such as basic and applied concepts, methods, and techniques used in the field. A sampling of topics: age-related changes in the degradation of oxidized proteins, the role of insulin/IGF-1 signaling pathway in aging and cancer, diabetes and the brain, protection of neural tissues and the heart by ischemic- and drug-induced preconditioning, mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways in nervous system and Alzheimer disease, molecular mechanism of HIV-1 associated neurodegeneration, and aspects of the cell biology of prions. No subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR