Title: Human motor neuron diseases /
Authors: Rowland, Lewis P.; Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Date: 1982
Publisher: Raven Press,
Physical description: xiv, 577 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language: English
LC class: R
Contents: Diverse forms of motor neuron diseases -- Clinical limits of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Diagnostic implications of clinical fasciculation and cramps -- Motor units in cat muscles: anatomical considerations in relation to motor unit types -- Electrophysiological studies of reinnervation in ALS -- Pathology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Aspects of the ultrastructure of amyotrophic sclerosis -- Neuronal RNA in motor neuron disease -- Are motor neuropathies and motor neuron diseases separable? -- Neuronal degenerations of aging -- Infantile motor neuron diseases -- Juvenile motor neuron diseases -- the sex influence in benign juvenile pseudodystrophic spinal muscular atrophy -- Familial motor neuron diseases -- Amyotrophy in multisystem genetic diseases -- Hexosaminidase deficiency: a cause of recessively inherited motor neuron diseases -- Guamanian ALS: hereditary or acquired? -- Nonfamilial amyotrophy with dementia of multisystem degeneration and other neurological disorders -- Phosphate and parathyroid disorders associated with the syndrome of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Motor neuron disease and toxic metals -- Heavy metals and essential minerals in motor neuron disease -- Pathogenesis of motor neuron disease: perspectives from neurotoxicology -- Cancer and disorders of motor neurons -- Plasma cell dyscrasia and motor neuron disease -- Epidemiology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- late progressive muscular atrophy and antecedent poliomyelitis -- Persistent infection by poliovirus: experimental studies -- Nucleic acid probes in the study of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Selective vulnerability of neural cells to viral infections -- Viruses other than poliovirus in human amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Update on long-term in vivo and in vitro studies designed to identify a virus as the cause of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinsonism dementia, and Parkinson's disease -- Further studies in search of a virus in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Foci of motor neuron disease in high incidence in isolated populations of East Asia and the Western Pacific -- Immunology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Circulating neurotoxins in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Experimental neurotoxic disorders of motor neurons: neurofibrillary pathology -- Cell-surface antigens of human fetal brain and dorsal root ganglion cells in tissue culture -- Growth factors and motor neurons -- Physiologic death of neurons in the developing anterior horn of the mouse -- DNA hypothesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Release of acetylcholinesterase in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Approaches to antiviral therapy -- Controlled therapeutic trials in motor neuron disease: methodologic considerations -- Therapeutic trials in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Methodological considerations for clinical trials in motor neuron disease.
Notes: "Muscular Dystrophy Association"--T.p. Discussions from an international meeting convened by the Muscular Dystrophy Association, June 7-12, 1981, in Scottsdale, Ariz. were transcribed and edited.