Cytokines and the Cns

by Ransohoff, Richard M.; Benveniste, Etty N.

• ISBN13: 9780849324529
• ISBN10: 0849324521
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: CRC Pr I Llc

Summary

The emphasis of this book is on how many soluble mediators (cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, neurotropic factors, neuropeptides, and hormones), affect the normal activity and development of CNS cells, and how aberrant expression of these mediators contributes to diseases such as CNS infection, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, neoplasia, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) encephalopathy.

Table of Contents

Overview, E.N. Benveniste

Cytokine Receptors, R.G. Goodwin, D.P. Cerretti, and C.A. Smith

Cytokine-Initiated Intracellular Signaling Pathways, T.A. Hamilton, C.S. Tannenbaum, and J.M. Tebo

Cellular Responses to Cytokines, M. Lotz and P. Villiger

Brain as Tissue: The Interacting Cell Populations of the Central Nervous System, D.M.D. Landis

Cytokines and Growth Factors in the Development and Regeneration of Oligodendrocytes, R.D. McKinnon and M. Dubois-Dalcq

Effects of Cytokines on CNS Cells: Neurons, M.F. Mehler, H. Goldstein, and J.A. Kessler

Effects of Cytokines on CNS Cells: Glia, B.A. St. Pierre, J.E. Merrill, and J.M. Dopp

Retrograde and Paracrine Influences on Neuropeptide Expression in Sympathetic Neurons After Axonal Injury, R.E. Zigmond

Cytokines and Defense Against CNS Infection, A. Fontana, D. Constam, K. Frei, U. Koedel, W. Pfister, and M. Weller

Cytokines in CNS Inflammation: Status of Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis and Multiple Sclerosis as Cytokine-Regulated Delayed-Type Hypersensitivity Reactions, R.M. Ransohoff and L. B÷

Neuroimmunology of Aging and Alzheimer's Disease with Emphasis on Cytokines, D.W. Dickson, S.C. Lee, C.F. Brosnan, S. Sinicropi, H. Vlassara ,and S.-H.C. Yen

Cytokines as Modulators of Malignant Glioma Progression, G.Y. Gillespie

Cytokines and HIV-Associated Dementia, S.L. Wesselingh, W.R. Tyor, and D.E. Griffin

Cytokines, Astrogliosis, and Neurotrophism Following CNS Trauma, V.W. Yong

Index