Overview
- Presents overviews of the current status of research and pointers to future research goals
- Written by experts
- Covers autism, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, epilepsy, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, multiple sclerosis, Down syndrome, premature ageing, and spinocerebellar ataxia and many more
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 724)
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Shamim I. Ahmad after obtaining his Master’s degree in Botany from Patna University, Bihar, India and his PhD in Molecular Genetics from Leicester University, England, joined Nottingham Polytechnic as Grade 1 lecturer and was subsequently promoted to SL post. Nottingham Polytechnic subsequently became Nottingham Trent University where, after serving for about 37 years, he took early retirement to spend the remaining time writing books and conducting full‑time research. For more than three decades he worked on different areas of biology including thymineless death in bacteria, genetic control of nucleotide catabolism, development of anti‑AIDS drugs, control of microbial infection of burns, phages of thermophilic bacteria and microbial flora of Chernobyl after the nuclear accident. But his primary interest, which started 27 years ago, is DNA damage and repair, particularly near UV photolysis of biological compounds, production of reactive oxygen species and their implications on human health including skin cancer and xeroderma pigmentosum. He is also investigating photolysis of non‑biological compounds such as 8‑methoxypsoralen+UVA, mitomycin C, and nitrogen mustard and their importance in psoriasis treatment and in Fanconi anemia. In 2003 he received a prestigious “Asian Jewel Award” in Britain for “Excellence in Education”. He is also the Editor of Molecular Mechanisms of Fanconi Anaemia, Molecular Mechanisms of Xeroderma Pigmentosum, Molecular Mechanisms of Fanconi Anaemia, Molecular Mechanisms of Xeroderma Pigmentosum, Molecular Mechanisms of Ataxia Telangiectasia, Molecular Mechanisms of Cockayne Syndrome and Diseases of DNA Repair published by Landes Bioscience.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neurodegenerative Diseases
Editors: Shamim I. Ahmad
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0653-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-0652-5Published: 01 December 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-0653-2Published: 12 March 2012
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 390
Number of Illustrations: 71 b/w illustrations
Topics: Neurosciences, Biomedicine general