Acute Neuronal Injury The Role of Excitotoxic Programmed Cell Death Mechanisms /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fujikawa, Denson G. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Neurosciences.; Neurology .; Pathology.; Cell biology.; Neurobiology.; Psychiatry.; Neurology.; Cell Biology.

An overview of the biochemical mechanisms that produce acute nerve cell death in the brain. Covers injuries and disorders including stroke, brain and spinal cord trauma, hypoglycemic coma, and prolonged epileptic seizures. All of these lead to high concentrations of calcium in nerve cells which, in...