Neuroinflammation : mechanisms and management / edited by Paul L. Wood.
Material type: TextSeries: Contemporary neurosciencePublication details: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2003.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 419 p. : ill. ; 35 cmISBN:- 1588290026 (alk. paper)
- Nervous system -- Degeneration -- Immunological aspects
- Inflammation
- Neuritis
- Inflammation -- Mediators
- Nervous system -- Pathophysiology
- Neurodegenerative Diseases -- immunology
- Anti-Inflammatory Agents -- pharmacology
- Inflammation -- immunology
- Nerve Degeneration -- immunology
- Neurodegenerative Diseases -- drug therapy
- 616.804 21 WOO
- RC363 .N48 2003
- WL 359
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface ............................................................................................................................ v
Contributors...................................................................................................................ix
I. NEUROINFLAMMATORY MECHANISMS
1 Microglia: Roles of Microglia in Chronic Neurodegenerative
Diseases ........................................................................................ 3
Paul L. Wood
2 Apoptosis vs Nonapoptotic Mechanisms
in Neurodegeneration ................................................................. 29
Kurt A. Jellinger
3 Role(s) of Mitogen and Stress-Activated Kinases
in Neurodegeneration .................................................................. 89
Christopher C. J. Miller, Steven Ackerley, Janet Brownlees,
Andrew J. Grierson, and Paul Thornhill
4 Roles of Chemokines and Their Receptors
in Neuroinflammation ................................................................ 99
Andrzej R. Glabinski and Richard M. Ransohoff
5 Neurotoxic Mechanisms of Nitric Oxide ..................................... 117
Kathleen M. K. Boje
6 Chronic Intracerebral LPS as a Model of Neuroinflammation ...... 137
Gary L. Wenk and Beatrice Hauss-Wegrzyniak
7 Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma Agonists:
Potential Therapeutic Agents for Neuroinflammation ............ 151
Gary E. Landreth, Sophia Sundararajan,
and Michael T. Heneka
8 Neuroinflammation-Mediated Neurotoxin Production
in Neurodegenerative Diseases: Potential of Nitrones
as Therapeutics......................................................................... 171
Robert A. Floyd and Kenneth Hensley
II. STROKE AND TBI
9 Inflammation and Potential Anti-Inflammatory Approaches
in Stroke .................................................................................... 189
Jari Koistinaho and Juha Yrjänheikki
10 Neuroinflammation as an Important Pathogenic Mechanism
in Spinal Cord Injury ................................................................ 215
Yuji Taoka and Kenji Okajima
11 Type IV Collagenases and Blood-Brain Barrier Breakdown
in Brain Ischemia ...................................................................... 237
Yvan Gasche, Jean-Christophe Copin, and Pak H. Chan
CONTENTS
vii
III. ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE
12 Neuroinflammatory Environments Promote Amyloid-β
Deposition and Posttranslational Modification ....................... 249
Craig S. Atwood, Mark A. Smith, Ralph N. Martins,
Rudolph E. Tanzi, Alex E. Roher, Ashley I. Bush,
and George Perry
13 Microglial Responses in Alzheimer’s Disease: Recent Studies
in Transgenic Mice and Alzheimer’s Disease Brains.............. 267
Douglas G. Walker and Lih-Fen Lue
14 The Amyloid Hypothesis of Cognitive Dysfunction ................... 283
Dave Morgan and Marcia N. Gordon
15 The Cerebellum in AD: A Case for Arrested
Neuroinflammation? ................................................................. 295
Paul L. Wood
16 The Neuroinflammatory Components of the Trimethyltin
(TMT) Model of Hippocampal Neurodegeneration ................ 301
G. Jean Harry and Christian Lefebvre d’Hellencourt
17 Inflammation and Cyclo-Oxygenase in Alzheimer’s Disease:
Experimental Approaches and Therapeutic Implications ....... 331
Patrick Pompl, Tara Brennan, Lap Ho,
and Giulio Maria Pasinetti
IV. MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
18 Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis ........................... 345
Hans-Peter Hartung and Bernd C. Kieseier
19 Neuroimmunologic Mechanisms in the Etiology of Multiple
Sclerosis .................................................................................... 359
Claudia F. Lucchinetti, W. Brück, and Hans Lassmann
20 In Vivo Imaging of Neuroinflammation in Neurodegenerative
Diseases .................................................................................... 379
Annachiara Cagnin, Alexander Gerhard,
and Richard B. Banati
V. PARKINSON’S AND HUNTINGTON’S DISEASES
21 Inflammatory Mechanisms in Parkinson’s Disease ..................... 391
Joseph Rogers and Carl J. Kovelowski
22 Neuroinflammatory Components of the 3-Nitropropionic Acid
Model of Striatal Neurodegeneration....................................... 405
Hideki Hida, Hiroko Baba, and Hitoo Nishino
Index ........................................................................................................................... 417
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