Rajib Dutta1* and Swatilekha Roy Sarkar2#
1MD, Neurology, India
2MDS, Consultant Orthodontist, India
*Corresponding Author: Rajib Dutta, MD, Neurology, India. E-mail: rajibdutta808@gmail.com
Received: December 27, 2019; Published: December 31, 2019
Brain iron plays a very important role in maintaining normal physiological functioning and homeostasis. However, excess iron or dysregulated iron metabolism is a potent source of free radical formation and oxidative damage to neuronal and other brain cells. Abnormal high brain iron levels are associated with many neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation, Multiple sclerosis, Aceruloplasminaemia (CPM). etc. Here in this review we will focus on brain iron transport, dysregulated metabolism and the disease it causes.
Keywords: Brain Iron; Neurodegeneration; Neurodegenerative Mechanisms; Neuroinflammation; Mitochondria; Neuron; Cells; Iron Metabolism; Blood Brain Barrier; Blood CSF Barrier; Influx; Efflux
Citation: Rajib Dutta and Swatilekha Roy Sarkar. “Neurological Diseases Associated with Brain Iron Accumulation".Acta Scientific Neurology 3.1 (2020): 53-61.
Copyright: © 2020 Rajib Dutta and Swatilekha Roy Sarkar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.