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Neuroinflammation [electronic resource] : mechanisms and management / edited by Paul L. Wood.

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The field of neuroinflammation is evolving rapidly and now yielding many new potential therapeutics for clinical trials. In this thoroughly updated and revised edition of his much praised book, Neuroinflammation: Mechanisms and Management, Second Edition, Paul L. Wood and a panel of leading research...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Wood, Paul L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, ©2003.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Contemporary neuroscience.
Subjects:
Nervous system > Degeneration > Immunological aspects.
Inflammation.
Neuritis.
Inflammation > Mediators.
Nervous system > Pathophysiology.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Neuroinflammatory Mechanisms
  • 1 Microglia: Roles of Microglia in Chronic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • 2 Apoptosis vs Nonapoptotic Mechanisms in Neurodegeneration
  • 3 Role(s) of Mitogen and Stress-Activated Kinases in Neurodegeneration
  • 4 Roles of Chemokines and Their Receptors in Neuroinflammation
  • 5 Neurotoxic Mechanisms of Nitric Oxide
  • 6 Chronic Intracerebral LPS as a Model of Neuroinflammation
  • 7 Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma Agonists: Potential Therapeutic Agents for Neuroinflammation
  • 8 Neuroinflammation-Mediated Neurotoxin Production in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Potential of Nitronesas Therapeutics
  • II. Stroke and TBI
  • 9 Inflammation and Potential Anti-Inflammatory Approaches in Stroke
  • 10 Neuroinflammation as an Important Pathogenic Mechanism in Spinal Cord Injury
  • 11 Type IV Collagenases and Blood-Brain Barrier Breakdown in Brain Ischemia
  • III Alzheimer's Disease
  • 12 Neuroinflammatory Environments Promote Amyloid-? Deposition and Posttranslational Modification
  • 13 Microglial Responses in Alzheimer's Disease: Recent Studies in Transgenic Mice and Alzheimer's Disease Brains
  • 14 The Amyloid Hypothesis of Cognitive Dysfunction
  • 15 The Cerebellum in AD: A Case for Arrested Neuroinflammation?
  • 16 The Neuroinflammatory Components of the Trimethyltin (TMT) Model of Hippocampal Neurodegeneration
  • 17 Inflammation and Cyclo-Oxygenase in Alzheimer's Disease: Experimental Approaches and Therapeutic Implications
  • IV. Multiple Sclerosis
  • 18 Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis
  • 19 Neuroimmunologic Mechanisms in the Etiology of Multiple Sclerosis
  • 20 In Vivo Imaging of Neuroinflammation in Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • V. Parkinson's and Huntington's Diseases
  • 21 Inflammatory Mechanisms in Parkinson's Disease
  • 22 Neuroinflammatory Components of the 3-Nitropropionic Acid Model of Striatal Neurodegeneration.

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