Diabetes, Insulin and Alzheimer's Disease

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Craft, Suzanne. (Editor), Christen, Yves. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Research and Perspectives in Alzheimer's Disease,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Geriatrics.; Endocrinology.; Biomedicine.; Geriatrics/Gerontology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04300-0

Neurons share more similarities with insulin-producing pancreatic islet cells than with any other cell type. The root of this similarity may lie in the islet<U+0019>s evolution from an ancestral insulin-producing neuron. The islet-neuron connection becomes less surprising as we learn more abou...

Table of Contents:

• Insulin Action in the Brain and the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer<U+0019>s Disease by Carl Ronald Kahn and Ryo Suzuki
• The Brain-insulin Connection, Metabolic Diseases and Related Pathologies by Kyriaki Gerozissis
• Insulin Mediated Neuroplasticity in the Central Nervous System by Lawrence P. Reagan
• Stress Hormones and Neuroplasticity in the Diabetic Brain by Alexis M. Stranahan and Mark P. Mattson
• Diabetes and the Brain <U+0013> an Epidemiologic Perspective by Lenore J. Launer
• Cognition in Type 2 Diabetes: Brain Imaging Correlates and Vascular and Metabolic Risk Factors by Geert Jan Biessels
• The Relationship between the Continuum of Elevated Adiposity, Hyperinsulinemia, and Type 2 Diabetes and Late-onset Alzheimer<U+0019>s disease: an Epidemiological Perspective byJos ̌A. Luchsinger
• The Role of Insulin Dysregulation in Aging and Alzheimer<U+0019>s disease by Suzanne Craft
• Is Alzheimer<U+0019>s a Disorder of Ageing and why don<U+0019>t Mice get it? The Centrality of Insulin Signalling to Alzheimer<U+0019>s disease Pathology by Simon Lovestone and Richard Killick
• PKC and Insulin Pathways in Memory Storage: Targets for Synaptogenesis, Anti-apoptosis, and the Treatment of AD by Miao-Kun Sun, Thomas J. Nelson and Daniel L. Alkon
• Diet, A<U+00df> Oligomers and Defective Insulin and Neurotrophic Factor Signaling in Alzheimer<U+0019>s disease by Greg M. Cole, Qiu-Lan Ma, Fusheng Yang, Atul Deshpande, Oliver Ubeda and Sally A. Frautschy
• Serum IGF-I, Life-style, and Risk of Alzheimerþs disease by Joaquin Piriz, Takeshi Nishijima, Jose Luis Trejo and Ignacio Torres Aleman
• Subject index.