Iron chelation therapy

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Hershko Chaim.
Published: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Pub.,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: c2002.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; 509
Subjects:
Carrier Form: viii, 277 p.: ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 0306467852
Index Number: R589
CLC: R589.9
Call Number: R589.9/I712/
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pathophysiology of iron overload -- Animal models of hereditary iron transport disorders -- Mechanism of iron toxicity -- Role of non-transferrin-bound iron in the pathogenesis of iron overload and toxicity -- Intacellular and extracellular labile iron pools -- Cardioprotective effect of iron chelators -- Chelation therapy in transfusional siderosis -- Results of long term iron Chelation treatment with deferoxamine -- Long term deferiprone chelation therapy -- Development of new iron chelators -- Iron chelators chemistry -- Structure-activity relationships among desazadesferrithiocin analogues -- ICL670A : preclinical profile -- Pyridoxal isonicotinoyl hydrazone and its analogues -- Novel strategies in iron chelation treatment -- Therapeutic potential of iron chelators in cancer therapy -- Antimalarial effect of iron chelators.