| Inflammatory Diseases and Copper 1982 Edition Contributor(s): Sorenson, John R. J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0896030377 ISBN-13: 9780896030374 Publisher: Humana OUR PRICE: $208.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1982 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Gardening - Medical | Diseases - Science | Life Sciences - Biochemistry |
| Dewey: 572 |
| LCCN: 82080151 |
| Series: Experimental Biology and Medicine |
| Physical Information: 1.38" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (2.37 lbs) 622 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 1928, it was discovered that copper was essential for normal human metabolism. A decade later, in 1938, it was observed that patients with rheu- matoid arthritis exhibited a higher than normal serum copper concentration that returned to normal with remission of this disease. Thirteen years later, it was found that copper complexes were effective in treating arthritic dis- eases. The first report that copper complexes had antiinflammatory activity in an animal model of inflammation appeared twenty-two years after the dis- covery of essentiality. In 1976, it was suggested that the active forms of the antiarthritic drugs are their copper complexes formed in vivo. This sugges- tion has been confirmed and extended in the interim in over 200 recent publications. Individual biomedical scientists from many countries who have published in these areas recently saw a need for a meeting to exchange current re- supporting new hypotheses. We search results and discuss the evidence met on the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences campus in Little Rock, Arkansas, August 10-13, 1981. Participants came from Australia, England, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, Wales, Zimbabwe, and over twenty of the United States. |