Developmental Neurobiology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rao, Mahendra S. (Editor), Jacobson†, Marcus (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Edition: Fourth Edition.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Human anatomy.; Neurobiology.; Biomedicine.; Anatomy.

Developmental Neurobiology provides an up-to-date survey of the cellular events and the molecular contributors that contribute to the assembly of the vertebrate nervous system. The text will serve as a readily tractable source for advanced undergraduate neuroscience majors and beginning graduate stu...

Table of Contents:

• Making a Neural Tube: Neural Induction and Neurulation
• Cell Proliferation in the Developing Mammalian Brain
• Anteroposterior and Dorsoventral Patterning
• Neural Crest and Cranial Ectodermal Placodes
• Neurogenesis
• The Oligodendrocyte
• Astrocyte Development
• Neuronal Migration in the Developing Brain
• Guidance of Axons and Dendrites
• Synaptogenesis
• Programmed Cell Death
• Regeneration and Repair
• Developmental Mechanisms in Aging and Age-Related Diseases of the Nervous System
• Beginnings of the Nervous System.