Central Nervous System Diseases and Inflammation

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Lane, Thomas E. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Carson, Monica (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Bergmann, Conni (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Wyss-Coray, Tony (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Immunology.; Neurosciences.; Pharmacology.; Virology.; Microbiology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

This volume serves as a succinct and well-organized reference volume focused on inflammatory CNS disease to a wide audience. The text is comprised of four sections revolving around current areas of interest in the fields of neuroimmunology, virology, pharmacology and disease. Sections of this text f...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Section I – Microglia and CNS Disease
• 1. Microglia: a CNS-Specific Tissue Macrophage
• Shweta S. Puntambekar, Jonathan M. Doose, Monica J Carson
• 2. Mechanisms of Microglial Activation by Amyloid Precursor Protein and its Proteolytic Fragments
• S. A. Austin and C. K. Combs
• 3. Pericytes
• Martin Krüger and Ingo Bechmann
• 4. Imaging Microglia in the Central Nervous System: Past, Present, and Future
• Dimitrios Davalos and Katerina Akassoglou
• Section II – Innate Immune Responses within the Brain
• 5. Cytokines in CNS inflammation and disease
• Malú G. Tansey and Tony Wyss-Coray
• 6. Arachidonic acid metabolites: Function in neurotoxicity and inflammation in the central nervous system
• and T.J. Montine
• 7. Pattern Recognition Receptors in CNS Disease
• Pamela A. Carpentier, D’Anne S. Duncan, Stephen D. Miller
• 8. The Complement System in the CNS: Thinking again
• Andrea J. Tenner and Karntipa Pisalyaput
• Section III – Chemokines and CNS Disease
• 9. Chemokines and autoimmune demyelination
• Michaela Fux, Jason Millward, and Trevor Owens
• 10. Chemokine actions in the CNS: Insights from transgenic models
• Marcus Müller and Iain L. Campbell
• 11. Chemokines and Spinal Cord Injury
• Maya N. Hatch and Hans S. Keirstead
• 12. The Usual Suspects: Chemokines and Microbial Infection of the Central Nervous System
• Michelle J. Hickey, Linda N. Stiles, Chris S. Schaumburg, and Thomas E. Lane
• Section IV – Antigen Presentation and Immune Responses within the Brain
• 13. CNS Dendritic Cells in Inflammation and Disease
• Samantha L. Bailey and Stephen D. Miller
• 14. MHC class I Expression and CD8+ T Cell Function: Towards the Cell Biology of T-APC Interactions in the Infected Brain
• Cornelia Bergmann and Pedro Lowenstein.