Motor neuron diseases
Subtitle: causes, classification, and treatments
By: editors, Bradley James Turner, Julie Atkin
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hauppauge, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781614701019
Subjects: Etiology; Therapy; Diseases; Classification; Motor neurons; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Motor Neuron Disease
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Motor neuron disease : causes, classification and treatments / Louisa Ng, Fary Khan; title: Membrane trafficking defects as determinants of motor neuron susceptibility and degeneration in ALS / Bradley J. Turner, Julie D. Atkin; title: Motoneuron specific calcium dysregulation and perturbed cellular calcium homestasis in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis : recent advances gained from genetically modified animals and cell culture models / Manoj Kumar Jaiswal; title: Treatment of ALS utilizing a stem cell strategy / Xiufang Guo, James J. Hickman; title: Tdp-43-immunoreactive pathology in frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP proteinopathy (FTLD-TDP) with and without associated motor neuron disease (MND) / R.A. Armstrong; title: Excitotoxicity and selective motor neuron degeneration / K.A. Staats, L. Van Den Bosch; title: Stem cell application in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis : growth factor delivery and cell therapy / Ksenija Bernau, Michael G. Meyer, Masatoshi Suzuki; title: Therapeutic intervention in spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) / Haruhiko Banno ... [et al.]; title: Expert commentary : motor neuron disease : assistive technology / Louisa Ng, Fary Khan; title: Comparative study on application of invasive ventilation and non-invasive ventilation to ALS patients in Europe, the USA, and Japan / Rika Yamauchi, Jun Kawamata, Shun Shimohama; title: Motor speech disorder in patients with motor neuron disease / Hideto Saigusa; title: Non-viral gene delivery of the GDNF, either alone or fused to the C-fragment of tetanus toxin protein, prolongs survival in a mouse ALS model / Rosario Osta; title: Motor neuron disease / Kazumi Murai; title: Motor neuron disease / Anil Kumar; title: Bulbospinal muscular atrophy (BSMA) Kennedy's disease / J. Finsterer.