title: Meeting report--copper research at the top.
abstract: In this brief paper, the author reports on a meeting on copper research (2nd International Meeting on Copper Homeostasis and its Disorders: Molecular and Cellular Aspects) recently held in Ravello, Italy (17-21 September 1999). Aimed at elucidating the diverse roles played by copper ions in biology and medicine, as they are currently intensely investigated worldwide, the meeting has been organized around a number of major topics from prominent areas of copper research. These included the molecular and cellular basis of copper transport, molecular advances in Menkes and Wilson's diseases, the involvement of copper in neurodegenerative diseases, the structure and function of copper metalloproteins.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche Internistiche, Universitá di Cagliari, Italy. Rinaldi@vaxcal.unica.it
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Rinaldi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003300:Copper / Q000378:metabolism*; D006527:Hepatolenticular Degeneration / Q000378:metabolism; D006706:Homeostasis; D006801:Humans; D017136:Ion Transport; D007706:Menkes Kinky Hair Syndrome / Q000378:metabolism; D008667:Metalloproteins / Q000378:metabolism; D019636:Neurodegenerative Diseases / Q000378:metabolism; D012106:Research
chemical_list: D008667:Metalloproteins; D003300:Copper