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Demyelinating diseases, basic and clinical electrophysiology

Title
Demyelinating diseases, basic and clinical electrophysiology / editors, Stephen G. Waxman, J. Murdoch Ritchie.
Publication
New York : Raven Press, ©1981.

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Additional Authors
  • Waxman, Stephen G.
  • Ritchie, J. Murdoch.
Description
xii, 532 pages : illustrations; 27 cm
Series Statement
Advances in neurology ; v. 31
Uniform Title
Advances in neurology ; v. 31.
Subject
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Demyelination
  • Electrophysiology
  • Demyelinating Diseases
  • Electrophysiology
  • Multiple Sclerosis
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Axons, myelin, and electrophysiology: introduction -- Multiple sclerosis: an overview -- Overview of studies on the physiology of conduction in myelinated nerve fibers -- Structure of normal peripheral myelinated nerve fibers -- Structure of normal central myelinated fibers -- Plasticity in the ontogeny and pathophysiology of myelinated fibers -- Biochemistry of myelin -- Pathology of demyelination and remyelination -- Clinicopathological correlations in multiple sclerosis and related diseases -- Somatosensory evoked potential testing in multiple sclerosis -- Visual evoked potentials in demyelinating disease -- Psychophysical tests of vision and hearing in patients with multiple sclerosis -- Refractory period measurement in the clinical domain -- Circulating toxic factors in multiple sclerosis: a perspective -- Tissue culture studies of neuroelectric blocking factors -- Hyperexcitability of pathologically myelinated axons and positive symptoms in multiple sclerosis -- Action potential electrogenesis in mammalian central axons -- Ionic and gating currents in mammalian myelinated nerve -- Distribution of sodium and potassium channels in mammalian myelinated nerve -- Pharmacological properties of sodium channels in nerve membranes -- Conduction failure in demyelination: is it inevitable? -- Isolation of sodium channels from excitable tissues -- Freeze-fracture approaches to ionophore localization in normal and myelin-deficient nerves -- Review of membrane structure with perspectives on certain transmembrane channels -- Trophic interactions of neurons and glia -- Approaches to the development of pharmacological interventions in multiple sclerosis -- Electrophysiology of demyelinating diseases: future directions and questions.
ISBN
  • 9780890046227
  • 0890046220
  • 0890046255
  • 9780890046258
  • 0890046225 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
81017882
OCLC
  • ocm08032228
  • 8032228
  • SCSB-60005
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library