Iron chelation therapy
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Kluwer Academic/Plenum Pub.,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | c2002. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; 509 |
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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. |