Research Catalog

Title

Neuroglia in the aging brain / edited by Jean de Vellis ; foreword by Paola S. Timiras.

Publication

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Additional Authors

De Vellis, Jean.

Description

xiii, 513 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.

Series Statement

Contemporary neuroscience

Uniform Title

Contemporary neuroscience.

Subject

• Aging > physiology
• Brain > Aging
• Brain > Molecular aspects
• Brain > cytology
• Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Neuroglia > physiology
• Neuroglia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Paola Timiras -- Pt. I. Cellular and Molecular Changes of Aged and Reactive Astrocytes. 1. Neuromorphological Changes in Neuronal and Neuroglial Populations of the Cerebral Cortex in the Aging Rat: Neurochemical Correlations / Maria Angeles Peinado, Manuel Martinez and Maria Jesus Ramirez / [et al.]. 2. Diversity in Reactive Astrocytes / Sudarshan K. Malhotra and Theodor K. Shnitka. 3. Astrocytic Reaction After Traumatic Brain Injury / Jesus Boya, J. L. Calvo and Angel Lopez-Carbonell / [et al.] -- Pt. II. Neuron-Glia Intercommunication. 4. Astrocytes In Situ Exhibit Functional Neurotransmitter Receptors / Marilee K. Shelton and Ken D. McCarthy. 5. Glia and Extracellular Space Diffusion Parameters in the Injured and Aging Brain / Eva Sykova. 6. Intercellular Diffusional Coupling between Glial Cells in Slices from the Striatum / Brigitte Hamon, Jacques Glowinski and Christian Giaume.
• 7. Glial Cell Involvement in Brain Repair and the Effects of Aging / Elizabeth A. Howes and Peter J. S. Smith. 8. ATP Signaling in Schwann Cells / Thierry Amedee, Aurore Colomar and Jonathan A. Coles -- Pt. III. Neurotrophins, Growth Factors, and Neurohormones in Aging and Regeneration. 9. Gliosis Growth Factors in the Adult and Aging Rat Brain / Gerard Labourdette and Francoise Eclancher. 10. Role of Fibroblast Growth Factor-2 in Astrogliosis / John F. Reilly. 11. Trophins as Mediators of Astrocyte Effects in the Aging and Regenerating Brain / Judith Lackland and Cheryl F. Dreyfus. 12. Responses in the Basal Forebrain Cholinergic System to Aging / Zezong Gu and J. Regino Perez-Polo. 13. Effects of Estrogens and Thyroid Hormone on Development and Aging of Astrocytes and Oligodendrocytes / Kevin Higashigawa, Alisa Seo and Nayan Sheth / [et al.] -- Pt. IV. Metabolic Changes. 14. Neurotoxic Injury and Astrocytes / Michael Aschner and Richard M. LoPachin.
• 15. Ammonium Ion Transport in Astrocytes: Functional Implications / Neville Brookes -- Pt. V. Astrocytes and the Blood-Brain Barrier in Aging. 16. Molecular Anatomy of the Blood-Brain Barrier in Development and Aging / Dorothee Krause, Pedro M. Faustmann and Rolf Dermietzel. 17. The Blood-Brain Barrier in the Aging Brain / Gesa Rascher and Hartwig Wolburg. 18. Astrocytes and Barrier-provided Microvasculature in the Developing Brain / Luisa Roncali -- Pt. VI. Astrocytes in Neurodegenerative Diseases. 19. Microglial and Astrocytic Reactions in Alzheimer's Disease / Douglas G. Walker and Thomas G. Beach. 20. Activated Neuroglia in Alzheimer's Disease / Kurt R. Brunden and Robert C. A. Frederickson. 21. Reactive Astroglia in the Ataxic Form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Cytology and Organization in the Cerebellar Cortex / Miguel Lafarga, Nuria T. Villagra and Maria T. Berciano. 22. Ischemic Injury, Astrocytes, and the Aging Brain / Robert Fern.
• 23. Glial-Neuronal Interactions during Oxidative Stress: Implications for Parkinson's Disease / Catherine Mytilineou. 24. Astrocytic Changes Associated with Epileptic Seizures / Angelique Bordey and Harald Sontheimer. 25. Synaptic and Neuroglial Pathobiology in Acute and Chronic Neurological Disorders / Lee J. Martin. 26. Astrocytes and Ammonia in Hepatic Encephalopathy / Michael D. Norenberg.

ISBN

0896035948 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2001026438

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries