Research Catalog

Title

Neuroinflammation : mechanisms and management / edited by Paul L. Wood.

Publication

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2003], ©2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wood, Paul L.

Description

xi, 419 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Contemporary neuroscience

Uniform Title

Contemporary neuroscience.

Subjects

• Inflammation
• Inflammation > immunology
• Neurodegenerative Diseases > drug therapy
• Nervous system > Pathophysiology
• Neurodegenerative Diseases > immunology
• Nervous system > Degeneration > Immunological aspects
• Inflammation > Mediators
• Anti-Inflammatory Agents > pharmacology
• Nerve Degeneration > immunology
• Neuritis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• I. Neuroinflammatory Mechanisms -- 1. Microglia: Roles of Microglia in Chronic Neurodegenerative Diseases / Paul L. Wood -- 2. Apoptosis vs. Nonapoptotic Mechanisms in Neurodegeneration / Kurt A. Jellinger -- 3. Role(s) of Mitogen and Stress-Activated Kinases in Neurodegeneration / Christopher C. J. Miller, Steven Ackerley, Janet Brownlees, Andrew J. Grierson and Paul Thornhill -- 4. Roles of Chemokines and Their Receptors in Neuroinflammation / Andrzej R. Glabinski and Richard M. Ransohoff -- 5. Neurotoxic Mechanisms of Nitric Oxide / Kathleen M. K. Boje -- 6. Chronic Intracerebral LPS as a Model of Neuroinflammation / Gary L. Wenk and Beatrice Hauss-Wegrzyniak -- 7. Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma Agonists: Potential Therapeutic Agents for Neuroinflammation / Gary E. Landreth, Sophia Sundararajan and Michael T. Heneka --
• 8. Neuroinflammation-Mediated Neurotoxic Production in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Potential of Nitrones as Therapeutics / Robert A. Floyd and Kenneth Hensley -- II. Stroke and TBI -- 9. Inflammation and Potential Anti-Inflammatory Approaches in Stroke / Jari Koistinaho and Juha Yrjanheikki -- 10. Neuroinflammation as an Important Pathogenic Mechanism in Spinal Cord Injury / Yuji Taoka and Kenji Okajima -- 11. Type IV Collagenases and Blood-Brain Barrier Breakdown in Brain Ischemia / Yvan Gasche, Jean-Christophe Copin and Pak H. Chan -- III. Alzheimer's Disease -- 12. Neuroinflammatory Environments Promote Amyloid-[beta] Deposition and Posttranslational Modification / Craig S. Atwood, Mark A. Smith, Ralph N. Martins, Rudolph E. Tanzi, Alex E. Roher, Ashley I. Bush and George Perry -- 13. Microglial Responses in Alzheimer's Disease: Recent Studies in Transgenic Mice and Alzheimer's Disease Brains / Douglas G. Walker and Lih-Fen Lue --
• 14. The Amyloid Hypothesis of Cognitive Dysfunction / Dave Morgan and Marcia N. Gordon -- 15. The Cerebellum in AD: A Case for Arrested Neuroinflammation? / Paul L. Wood -- 16. The Neuroinflammatory Components of the Trimethyltin (TMT) Model of Hippocampal Neurodegeneration / G. Jean Harry and Christian Lefebvre d'Hellencourt -- 17. Inflammation and Cyclo-Oxygenase in Alzheimer's Disease: Experimental Approaches and Therapeutic Implications / Patrick Pompl, Tara Brennan, Lap Ho and Giulio Maria Pasinetti -- IV. Multiple Sclerosis -- 18. Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis / Hans-Peter Hartung and Bernd C. Kieseier -- 19. Neuroimmunologic Mechanisms in the Etiology of Multiple Sclerosis / Claudia F. Lucchinetti, W. Bruck and Hans Lassmann -- 20. In Vivo Imaging of Neuroinflammation in Neurodegenerative Diseases / Annachiara Cagnin, Alexander Gerhard and Richard B. Banati -- V. Parkinson's and Huntington's Diseases --
• 21. Inflammatory Mechanisms in Parkinson's Disease / Joseph Rogers and Carl J. Kovelowski -- 22. Neuroinflammatory Components of the 3-Nitropropionic Acid Model of Striatal Neurodegeneration / Hideki Hida, Hiroko Baba and Hitoo Nishino.

ISBN

1588290026 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002038760

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries