SynthesisBiometals : an international journal on the role of metal ions in biology, biochemistry, and medicine2024
Are high copper levels related to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases? A systematic review and meta-analysis of articles published between 2011 and 2022.
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- Pooled it
- When copper turns killer: Decoding copper dyshomeostasis and cuproptosis in neurodegenerative pathogenesis and precision metal interventions.Neural regeneration research · 2026Article
- New Coordination Polymers with Unexpected Octahedral copper(II) Geometry: Synthesis, Supramolecular and Theoretical Study.ACS omega · 2026Article
- Behavioral, Histopathological, and Biochemical Implications of Aloe Emodin in Copper-Aβ-Induced Alzheimer's Disease-like Model Rats.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Article
- Aging at the Crossroads of Cuproptosis and Ferroptosis: From Molecular Pathways to Age-Related Pathologies and Therapeutic Perspectives.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Human CTR1 Through the Ages: Milestones and Emerging Roles in Disease and Therapy.Biomolecules · 2025Review
- Binding of Hg(I) and Hg(II) Ions to Amyloid-Beta (Aβ) Peptide Variants Affect their Structure and Aggregation.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2025Article
- Environmental toxins in neurodegeneration - a narrative review.Neurological research and practice · 2025Review
- Structure-Based Understanding of CuBiosensors · 2025Review
- CLSI Validation of Exchangeable Copper Determination in Serum by ICP-MS: A Focus on Alzheimer's Disease and Wilson Disease.Biomolecules · 2025Article
- The Antimicrobial Efficacy of Copper Complexes: A Review.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Homeostasis and metabolism of iron and other metal ions in neurodegenerative diseases.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2025Review
- Mammalian copper homeostasis: physiological roles and molecular mechanisms.Physiological reviews · 2025Review
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Abstract
Copper performs an important role in the brain, but in high levels it can be neurotoxic. Further, some authors have described that copper dyshomeostasis could be related with neurodegenerative diseases. Thus, this review was performed to observe whether high copper levels are related to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases (AD and PD), using the literature published recently. Articles that measured copper levels in AD or PD patients was included, as well as they that measured copper levels in models used to mimic these diseases. Also, results about high copper levels effects and its relationship with AD and PD observed in laboratory animals are considered. In summary, 38 and 24 articles with AD and PD patients were included, respectively. Despite of the heterogeneity between the studies in humans, meta-analysis has demonstrated that there is an increase in free and total copper levels in the blood of AD patients compared to controls, and a decrease in copper levels in PD patients. A decrease in the metal content in postmortem brain tissue was observed in AD and PD. In manuscripts using animal models that mimic AD and PD, it was included seven and three articles, respectively. Two of them have reported an increase in copper concentrations in AD model, and one in PD model. Finally, studies with laboratory animals have concluded that high copper levels are related to oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, changes in neurotransmitter levels, cell death, and reduced both cognitive and locomotor activity, which are also described in AD or PD.
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