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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2014

The iron regulatory capability of the major protein participants in prevalent neurodegenerative disorders.

Bruce X Wong, James A Duce

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Iron Redox Chemistry and Implications in the Parkinson's Disease Brain.Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2019
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  12. Bioavailable Trace Metals in Neurological Diseases.Current treatment options in neurology · 2016
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  14. Role of iron in neurodegenerative diseases.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2016
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  15. Iron Homeostasis in Health and Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Bruce X WongOxidation Biology Unit, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC, Australia.
James A DuceOxidation Biology Unit, The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC, Australia ; School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds Leeds, UK.
Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As with most bioavailable transition metals, iron is essential for many metabolic processes required by the cell but when left unregulated is implicated as a potent source of reactive oxygen species. It is uncertain whether the brain's evident vulnerability to reactive species-induced oxidative stress is caused by a reduced capability in cellular response or an increased metabolic activity. Either way, dys-regulated iron levels appear to be involved in oxidative stress provoked neurodegeneration. As in peripheral iron management, cells within the central nervous system tightly regulate iron homeostasis via responsive expression of select proteins required for iron flux, transport and storage. Recently proteins directly implicated in the most prevalent neurodegenerative diseases, such as amyloid-β precursor protein, tau, α-synuclein, prion protein and huntingtin, have been connected to neuronal iron homeostatic control. This suggests that disrupted expression, processing, or location of these proteins may result in a failure of their cellular iron homeostatic roles and augment the common underlying susceptibility to neuronal oxidative damage that is triggered in neurodegenerative disease.

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Alzheimer’s diseaseamyloid-β precursor proteinHuntington’s diseaseParkinson’s diseaseprion diseaseprion proteintauα-synuclein

Identifiers

PMID24795635
PMCPMC4001010
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