Research Catalog

Title

Etiology and pathogenesis of Down syndrome : proceedings of the International Down Syndrome Research Conference / sponsored by the National Down Syndrome Society, held in Charleston, South Carolina, April 11 to 13, 1994 ; editors, Charles J. Epstein [and others].

Author

International Down Syndrome Research Conference (1994 : Charleston, S.C.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95802131

Publication

New York : Wiley-Liss, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Epstein, Charles J.
• National Down Syndrome Society (U.S.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85029338

Description

xiv, 260 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Progress in clinical and biological research ; 393

Uniform Title

Progress in clinical and biological research ; v. 393.

Subjects

• Down Syndrome > etiology
• Down syndrome > Pathogenesis > Congresses
• Down syndrome > Etiology > Congresses
• Congress

Genre/Form

Congress.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface / Charles J. Epstein, Terry Hassold, Ira T. Lott, Lynn Nadel and David Patterson -- National Down Syndrome Society Science Symposia Publications -- The Origin of Trisomy in Humans / Terry Hassold, Stephanie Sherman and Patricia A. Hunt -- Mechanism of Chromosome Nondisjunction in Human Oocytes / Roslyn Angell -- Antenatal Screening for Down Syndrome / Nicholas J. Wald -- The Integrated Map of Human Chromosome 21 / David Patterson -- Cognitive Abilities in Children With Down Syndrome: Developmental Instability and Motivational Deficits / Jennifer G. Wishart -- Individual Differences in Vocabulary Acquisition in Children With Down Syndrome / Jon F. Miller -- Dissociation of Galaninergic and Neurotrophic Plasticity in Down Syndrome and Alzheimer Disease / Elliott J. Mufson, William C. Benzing and Jeffrey H. Kordower -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Aging Brain in Down Syndrome / Jane F. Emerson, J. Patrick Kesslak, Po-Chou Chen and Ira T. Lott --
• Genetic Determinants of Alzheimer Disease / Peter St. George-Hyslop -- A Hypothesis to Explain the Immune Defects in Down Syndrome / Marianne Murphy, Robert M. Insoft, Larry Pike-Nobile and Lois B. Epstein -- Down Syndrome and Leukemia, An Update / Harry A. Drabkin and Paul Erickson -- Considerations of Quantitative Data on Organ Sizes and Cell Numbers and Sizes in Down Syndrome / Benjamin H. Landing and W. Rodman Shankle -- Transgenic Models for Chromosome 21 Gene Dosage Effects / Yoram Groner -- YAC Transgenic Mice in the Study of the Genetic Basis of Down Syndrome / D. E. Cabin, A. Hawkins, C. Griffin and R. H. Reeves -- Preliminary Characterization of the Central Nervous System in Partial Trisomy 16 Mice / David M. Holtzman, Joshua Kilbridge, Karen S. Chen, John Rabin, Ralf Luche, Elaine Carlson, Charles J. Epstein and William C. Mobley --
• Epilogue: Toward the Twenty-First Century With Down Syndrome - A Personal View of How Far We Have Come and of How Far We Can Reasonably Expect to Go / Charles J. Epstein.

ISBN

047112317X (alk. paper)

LCCN

95021511

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries