Inflammation: the Common Link in Brain Pathologies

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Jana, Nihar (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Basu, Anirban (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Tandon, Prakash Narain (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Immunology.; Neurochemistry.; Neurology.; Neurobiology.; Biomedicine.

This unifying theme of this book—with sections on mechanisms of defense and neuropathogenesis, neurological diseases, infections of the nervous system, neuropharmacology, and novel therapies—is interactions of the immune and nervous systems. It also discusses the role of inflammation as a key mediat...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Chapter 1. General Physiology and Pathophysiology of Microglia in inflammation
• Chapter 2. Inflammation and the Pathophysiology of Astrocytes in brain disorders
• Chapter 3. Neuroinflammation in Huntington’s and related neurodegenerative disorders
• Chapter 4. Brain infection and inflammation
• Chapter 5. Neuroinflammation in Ischemic Stroke
• Chapter 6. Innate and Adaptive Immune-Mediated Neuroinflammation in Parkinson’s Disease
• Chapter 7. Brain cancer and inflammation
• Chapter 8. Demylinating diseases and neuro-inflammation
• Chapter 9. Obesity and neuro-inflammation
• Chapter 10. Retinal disorder/degeneration and inflammation associated with it.