Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of multiple sclerosis / edited by Stuart D. Cook.

Publication

New York : M. Dekker, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

Cook, Stuart D.

Description

xiv, 620 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Neurological disease and therapy ; 43

Uniform Title

Neurological disease and therapy ; v. 43.

Subjects

• Multiple sclerosis
• Multiple Sclerosis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Series Introduction / William C. Koller -- 1. The Epidemiology of Multiple Sclerosis / William Pryse-Phillips -- 2. Genetics of Multiple Sclerosis / Jan Hillert -- 3. Experimental Models of Virus-Induced Demyelination / Mauro C. Dal Canto -- 4. Evidence for a Viral Etiology of Multiple Sclerosis / Stuart D. Cook, Christine Rohowsky-Kochan, Shalini Bansil and Peter C. Dowling -- 5. Experimental Models of Autoimmune Demyelination / Fred D. Lublin -- 6. Immunological Mechanisms in Multiple Sclerosis / Samia J. Khoury, Howard L. Weiner and David A. Hafler -- 7. Evidence for Immunopathogenesis / Ute Traugott -- 8. Autoantibodies in Demyelinating Disease / John L. Trotter and Anne H. Cross -- 9. Clinical Features / Aaron E. Miller -- 10. Pathology of Multiple Sclerosis / John W. Prineas -- 11. Pathophysiology of Demyelinated and Remyelinated Axons / Stephen C. Waxman -- 12. Cerebrospinal Fluid / John N. Whitaker and Etty N. Benveniste --
• 13. Evoked Potentials / Marc R. Nuwer -- 14. Neuroimaging in Multiple Sclerosis / Lael A. Stone, Henry F. McFarland and Joseph A. Frank -- 15. Multiple Sclerosis: Therapeutic Overview / Michael J. Olek, Marika J. Hohol, Samia J. Khoury, David M. Dawson, David A. Hafler and Howard L. Weiner -- 16. Symptomatic Treatment and Rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis / Charles R. Smith and Labe Scheinberg -- 17. Aminopyridines / Christopher T. Bever, Jr. -- 18. Corticosteroid Therapy in Acute Multiple Sclerosis / Raymond Troiano -- 19. Immunosuppressive Drugs / George W. Ellison -- 20. Treatment of Patients with Progressive Multiple Sclerosis with Total Lymphoid Irradiation / Stuart D. Cook, Corinne Devereux, Raymond Troiano, Christine Rohowsky-Kochan, Amiram Sheffet, Annette Jotkowitz, George Zito and Peter C. Dowling -- 21. Plasma Exchange and Lymphocytapheresis Therapy in Multiple Sclerosis / Bhupendra O. Khatri --
• 22. Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis with Intravenous Immune Globulin / Peter Rudge -- 23. Interferon Therapy of Multiple Sclerosis / Kenneth P. Johnson -- 24. Copolymer I: Experimental Background, Clinical Trials, and Prospects for Therapy of Multiple Sclerosis / Hillel Panitch -- 25. Monoclonal Antibodies in the Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis / J. William Lindsey and Lawrence Steinman -- 26. Antigen-Specific Immunotherapies: Vaccination with T-Cell Receptor Peptides and Induction of Oral Tolerance / Shalini Bansil and Christine Rohowsky-Kochan -- 27. Future Immunotherapies / Christine Rohowsky-Kochan.

ISBN

0824797264 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

96024682

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries