Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Antioxidants and other pharmacological treatments for Friedreich ataxia.

Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2009 Oct 7;4:CD007791

Kearney M, Orrell RW, Fahey M, Pandolfo M.
General Practice, Irish College of General Practitioners, Dunlavin, County Wicklow, Ireland.

Keywords: Friedreich ataxia, autosomal recessive, neurological disorder, slurred speech, scoliosis, pes cavus, heart abnormalities, antioxidants, controlled trials, international Co-operative Ataxia Rating Scale (ICARS),left ventricular heart mass, magnetic resonance imaging, echocardiography, idebenone.

Lipid Oxidation and Peroxidation in CNS Health and Disease: From Molecular Mechanisms to Therapeutic Opportunities

Rao Muralikrishna Adibhatla, James Franklin Hatcher, Savita Khanna, Shrinivas K. Kulkarni, Pamela Maher, Cesare Mancuso, Stanley I. Rapoport, Mark Smith, Bobby Thomas, Tatsurou Yagami. Antioxidants & Redox Signaling. -Not available-, ahead of print. doi:10.1089/ars.2009.2668.

Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin.Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin.Neuroscience Training Program, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin. William S. Middleton Veterans Affairs Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin.

Keywords: Reactive oxygen species (ROS), oxidative phosphorylation, NAD(P)H oxidases, arachidonic acid oxidative metabolism, endogenous antioxidant defenses, Nrf2/ARE, Oxidative stress, lipids, cell death, oxidized phospholipids, 4-hydroxynonenal, 4-oxo-2-nonenal, acrolein, neurodegenerative diseases (AD, ALS, bipolar disorder, epilepsy, Friedreich's ataxia, HD, MS, NBIA, NPC, PD, peroxisomal disorders, schizophrenia, Wallerian degeneration, Zellweger syndrome), CNS traumas (stroke, TBI, SCI), free iron, Fenton reaction, cholesterol, lipid oxidation/peroxidation.