Erschienen in:
01.03.2011 | Review Paper
Oxidative Stress in Alzheimer Disease: Synergy Between the Butterfield and Markesbery Laboratories
verfasst von:
D. Allan Butterfield
Erschienen in:
NeuroMolecular Medicine
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Ausgabe 1/2011
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William R. Markesbery, M.D., a 35-year wonderful colleague and deep personal friend of mine, as well as a gifted clinician, neuropathologist, and researcher of Alzheimer disease (AD), died on January 30, 2010. His is a legacy of excellence in all aspects of his life, and a tribute memorial article to his life has been recently published (Butterfield
2010). Bill and I together were among the first to develop the notion that oxidative stress in brain was associated with AD and arguably its earliest form, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and that oxidative stress may underlie the progression of MCI to AD (Smith et al.
2001; Hensley et al.
1995; Markesbery
1997; Butterfield and Lauderback
2002; Butterfield et al.
2001,
2002,
2003,
2006a,
2007a,
b; Keller et al.
2005; Castegna et al.
2002a,
b,
2003; Butterfield
2004; Sultana et al.
2006a,
b,
2007; Perluigi et al.
2009; Reed et al.
2008). …