Tuesday, April 20, 2010

A New Proposal For Achieving Neuronal Regeneration

Medical News Today, Article Date: 20 Apr 2010 - 2:00 PDT
Over the past four years, in the installations of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Cadiz, a group of researchers, headed by Doctor Carmen Estrada, has been studying neurogenesis the process of forming new neurons from mother cells in the adult mammal brain. The purpose of this research project is to contribute to the knowledge of this process with the object of finding some additional mechanism that would facilitate the treatment of pathologies of the central nervous system (CNS) that are suffered in consequence of neuronal death...

Frataxin, the mitochondrial iron chaperone for Fe-S cluster bioassembly

ProQuest, Dissertations & Theses

Jeremy David, Ph.D.,Wayne State University, 2010, 256 pages; AAT 3390960

Keywords: Iron, human disorders and diseases, Freidreich's Ataxia (FRDA),
frataxin, mitochondria, iron homeostasis, chaperone, Iron Sulfur Cluster (ISC),   ferrous iron, carboxylate ligands