The Brain Without Oxygen Causes of Failure-Physiological and Molecular Mechanisms for Survival /

• Main Authors: Lutz, Peter L. (Author), Nilsson, Göran E. (Author), Prentice, Howard M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Veterinary medicine.; Biochemistry.; Animal anatomy.; Animal physiology.; Biomedicine.; Animal Physiology.; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology.; Biochemistry, general.; Veterinary Medicine.

It is well known and researched, that deprivation of oxygen to the brain can quickly result in irreversible damage and death. What is less well known, is that some vertebrate species are exceptionally tolerant of brain hypoxia. The Brain Without Oxygen: Causes of failure - Physiological and molecula...

Table of Contents:

• Normal Brain Function
• Oxygen Sensing and Hypoxia Signaling
• The Brain in Crisis
• Molecular Aspects of Brain Ischemia in Mammals
• Brains That Survive: Adaptations to Anoxia
• Mechanisms of Brain Anoxia Tolerance
• Special Cases of Enhanced Tolerance
• Acclimation to Hypoxia in Mammals: Preconditioning
• Clinical Perspectives.