Title: The mechanisms of neuronal damage in virus infections of the nervous system /
Authors: Gosztonyi, G.
Date: 2001
Publisher: Springer,
Physical description: viii, 278 pages : 29 figures (1 color), 4 tables ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: Q
Contents: The concept of neurotropism and selective vulnerability ("pathoclisis") in virus infections of the nervous system - a historical overview / G. Gosztonyi and H. Koprowski -- The mechanisms of direct, virus-induced destruction of neurons / J.R. Anderson -- Slow and persistent virus infections of neurones - a compromise for neuronal survival / U.G. Liebert -- Neuronal latency in human and animal herpesvirus infections / K. Borchers and H.J. Field -- Programmed cell death in virus infections of the nervous system / J. Fazakerley and T.E. Allsopp -- Interactions of viral proteins with neurotransmitter receptors may protect or destroy neurons / G. Gosztonyi and H. Ludwig -- Mechanisms of virus-induced neuronal damage and the clearance of viruses from the CNS / B. Dietzschold, K. Morimoto, and D.C. Hooper -- Borna disease virus infection of adult and neonatal rats : models for neuropsychiatric disease / M. Hornig ... [et al.] -- The mechanisms of neuronal damage in retroviral infections of the nervous system / V.J. Sanders, C.A. Wiley, and R.L. Hamilton -- Prion-induced neuronal damage - the mechanisms of neuronal destruction in the subacute spongiform encephalopathies / A. Giese and H.A. Kretzschmar -- The role of T-cell-mediated mechanisms in virus infections of the nervous system / R. Dörries -- Virus-induced autoimmune reactions in the CNS / P.J. Talbot, D. Arnold, and J.P. Antel.
Subject headings (LCSH): Nervous system--Infections.; Virus diseases.