Neurotoxicity of Aluminum

Dr. Qiao Niu is a professor and director of the Department of Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University. He is also director of the Institute of Preventive Medicine at the same university. Dr. Niu is executive director of the Chinese Society for Toxicology, and of the Labor Health and Occupational Disease Branch of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association. His research focuses on neurotoxicology, an area in which he has published more than 100 research articles.

Overview of the relationship between aluminum exposure and health of human being.- The Chemistry of Human Exposure to Aluminum.- Entry and Deposit of Aluminum in Brain.- Aluminum as a CNS and immune system toxin across the life span.- Occupational exposure to aluminum and cognitive impairment.- Exposure to aluminum in daily life and Alzheimer’s disease.- Animal model of aluminum-induced Alzheimer’s Disease.- Aluminum induced neural cells death.- Aluminum-induced electrophysiological variation, synaptic plasticity impairment and related mechanism.- Cross talk between Aluminum and genetic susceptibility and epigenetic modification in Alzheimer’s disease