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Central Nervous System Diseases and Inflammation
ISBN/EAN: 9780387738932
Umbreit-Nr.: 1075330
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: viii, 318 S., 1 s/w Illustr., 9 farbige Illustr.,
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 14.12.2007
Auflage: 1/2008
- Zusatztext
- InhaltsangabeSection I - Microglia and CNS Disease.- 1. Microglia: a CNS-Specific Tissue Macrophage.- Shweta S. Puntambekar, Jonathan M. Doose, Monica J Carson.- 2. Mechanisms of Microglial Activation by Amyloid Precursor Protein and its Proteolytic Fragments.- S. A. Austin and C. K. Combs.- 3. Pericytes.- Martin Krüger and Ingo Bechmann.- 4. Imaging Microglia in the Central Nervous System: Past, Present, and Future.- Dimitrios Davalos and Katerina Akassoglou.- Section II - Innate Immune Responses within the Brain.- 5. Cytokines in CNS inflammation and disease.- Malú G. Tansey and Tony Wyss-Coray.- 6. Arachidonic acid metabolites: Function in neurotoxicity and inflammation in the central nervous system.- and T.J. Montine.- 7. Pattern Recognition Receptors in CNS Disease.- Pamela A. Carpentier, D'Anne S. Duncan, Stephen D. Miller.- 8. The Complement System in the CNS: Thinking again.- Andrea J. Tenner and Karntipa Pisalyaput.- Section III - Chemokines and CNS Disease.- 9. Chemokines and autoimmune demyelination.- Michaela Fux, Jason Millward, and Trevor Owens.- 10. Chemokine actions in the CNS: Insights from transgenic models.- Marcus Müller and Iain L. Campbell.- 11. Chemokines and Spinal Cord Injury.- Maya N. Hatch and Hans S. Keirstead.- 12. The Usual Suspects: Chemokines and Microbial Infection of the Central Nervous System.- Michelle J. Hickey, Linda N. Stiles, Chris S. Schaumburg, and Thomas E. Lane.- Section IV - Antigen Presentation and Immune Responses within the Brain.- 13. CNS Dendritic Cells in Inflammation and Disease.- Samantha L. Bailey and Stephen D. Miller.- 14. MHC class I Expression and CD8+ T Cell Function: Towards the Cell Biology of T-APC Interactions in the Infected Brain.- Cornelia Bergmann and Pedro Lowenstein.
- Kurztext
- This volume serves as a succinct and well-organized reference volume focused on inflammatory CNS disease to a wide audience. The text is comprised of four sections revolving around current areas of interest in the fields of neuroimmunology, virology, pharmacology and disease. Sections of this text focus on a specific category of diseases as well as the pharmacological, virological, and immunological effects of and on the disease. Although many have covered this topic, few have provided a volume as concise and efficient. Each disease is broken down on a variety of scientific levels without getting into the history of the disease. This approach provides a succinct overview of a specific subject encompassing interrelated topics pertaining to neurology, immunology and disease. The information provided in Central Nervous System Diseases and Inflammation will be useful for researchers, clinicians, as well as a valuable resource for students interested in the fascinating arena of neuroinflammation.