Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Nitric oxide and frataxin: two players contributing to maintain cellular iron homeostasis.

Ann Bot (Lond). 2009 Jun 25

Ramirez L, Zabaleta EJ, Lamattina L.
Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, CC 1245, (7600) Mar del Plata, Argentina.

Keywords: PLANTS, animals, bacteria, Nitric oxide, iron metabolism, Frataxin, mitochondrial iron homeostasis, frataxin knock-down Arabidopsis thaliana mutants.

NITRIC OXIDE IN CELL SURVIVAL: A JANUS MOLECULE.

Antioxid Redox Signal. 2009 Jun 26

Calabrese V, Cornelius C, Rizzarelli E, Owen JB, Dinkova-Kostova AT, Butterfield DA.
University of Catania, Department of Chemistry, Catania, Italy; calabres@unict.it.

Keywors: Nitric oxide, nervous system, synaptic activity, neural plasticity, memory function, cysteine residues , neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, Alzheimer's disease, amyothrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, Friedreich's ataxia, Huntington, glutathione, nitrosative stress, redox signaling.