Research Catalog

Title

Immunology of the nervous system / edited by Robert W. Keane, William F. Hickey.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Keane, Robert W.
• Hickey, William F., 1949-

Description

xxii, 824 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Nervous system > Diseases > Immunological aspects
• Nervous System > immunology
• Neuroimmunology
• Nervous System Diseases > immunology
• Neuroimmunomodulation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. A Brief History of Neuroimmunology / Byron H. Waksman -- 2. A Review of the Immune System / Emil R. Unanue -- 3. Immunologic Principles Related to the Nervous System and the Eye: Concerning the Existence of a Neural-Ocular Immune System / J. Wayne Streilein and Andrew W. Taylor -- 4. Cervical Lymphatics, the Blood-Brain Barrier, and Immunoreactivity of the Brain / Helen F. Cserr and Paul M. Knopf -- 5. Microglia and Macrophages / V. Hugh Perry and Siamon Gordon -- 6. Astrocytes: Normal Aspects and Response to CNS Injury / Michael D. Norenberg -- 7. Lymphocyte Entry and the Initiation of Inflammation in the Central Nervous System / William F. Hickey, Hans Lassmann and Anne H. Cross -- 8. Innervation of Lymphoid Organs and Neurotransmitter-Lymphocyte Interactions / Denise L. Bellinger, Suzanne Y. Felten and Dianne Lorton [et al.] -- 9. Autoantigens of the Nervous System / Lou Ann Barnett and Robert S. Fujinami --
• 10. Antigen Presentation in the Central Nervous System / Jonathan D. Sedgwick and William F. Hickey -- 11. Cytokine Expression in the Nervous System / Etty N. Benveniste -- 12. CD4 Effector Cells in Autoimmune Diseases of the Central Nervous System / Hartmut Wekerele -- 13. Direct Cell-Mediated Responses in the Nervous System: CTL vs. NK Activity, and Their Dependence Upon MHC Expression and Modulation / Wendy S. Armstrong and Lois A. Lampson -- 14. Neuroendocrine-Immune Interactions / Douglas A. Weigent and J. Edwin Blalock -- 15. Establishment and Control of Viral Infections of the Central Nervous System / Jurgen Schneider-Schaulies, Uwe G. Liebert and Rudiger Dorries [et al.] -- 16. Transplantation into the Central Nervous System / Maciej Poltorak and William J. Freed -- 17. Immunosuppression: CNS Effects / Robert W. Keane -- 18. Immunology of the Eye / Scott W. Cousins and Richard D. Dix --
• 19. Autoimmune Demyelinating Diseases of the Central Nervous System / Claude P. Genain and Stephen L. Hauser -- 20. AIDS and the Nervous System / Lawrence S. Honig -- 21. Tumors of the Central Nervous System / Carol J. Wikstrand and Darell J. Bigner -- 22. Immunology of the Peripheral Nervous System / Rachel George, Judith Spies and John W. Griffin.

ISBN

0195078179 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96024678

OCLC

• 34894439
• ocm34894439
• SCSB-4783113

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries