Providing with an overall picture of brain iron metabolism and pathogenesis of CNS diseases Introducing the cutting-edge developments in brain iron metabolism and related diseases Illustrating the regulatory mechanisms of brain iron uptake, homeostasis and metabolism in pathophysiology and pharmacology of CNS disease models

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Dr. Yan-Zhong Chang is a Professor, the Director of the Department of Physiology, and Dean of the College of Life Sciences, Hebei Normal University. He is a member of the Biophysical Society of China (BSC) committee, and the Associate Director of the Free Radical Biology and Biological Trace Element Branches of BSC, as well as of the Neuroendocrine and Metabolic Branch of the Chinese Society for Neuroscience (CSN). He also served as a member of the advisory board of Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences and of the editorial board of the Journal of Biochemical and Pharmacological Research. Prof. Chang's research focuses on iron metabolism and related diseases, and he has published more than 100 articles in this field.

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Brain Iron Metabolism and CNS Diseases.- Cellular iron metabolism and regulation.- Brain iron metabolism and regulation.- Iron pathophysiology in Parkinson diseases.- Iron pathophysiology in Alzheimer's diseases.- Iron pathophysiology in stroke.- Iron pathophysiology in Friedreich's ataxia.- Iron pathophysiology in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.- Iron pathophysiology in Neurodegenerative with Brain Iron Accumulation.- Diagnostics and treatments of iron-related CNS diseases