The biology of Schwann cells
Subtitle: development, differentiation and immunomodulation
By: edited by Patricia Armati.
Contributors: Armati, Patricia J.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780521850209
Subjects: Neuroglia.; Schwann Cells -- physiology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the Schwann cell / Emily Mathey and Patricia J. Armati; title: Early events in Schwann cell development / Rhona Mirsky and Kristján R. Jessen; title: The molecular organisation of myelinating Schwann cells / Edgardo J. Arroyo and Steven S. Scherer; title: The role of the extracellular matrix in Schwann cell development and myelination / Maria Laura Feltri and Lawrence Wrabetz; title: The biology of perisynaptic (terminal) Schwann cells / Chien-Ping Ko, Yoshie Sugiura, and Zhihua Feng; title: Cytokine and chemokine interactions with Schwann cells : the neuroimmunology of Schwann cells / Robert P. Lisak and Joyce A. Benjamins; title: Schwann cells as immunomodulatory cells / Bernd C. Kieseier, Wei Hu, and Hans-Peter Hartung; title: Mutations in Schwann cell genes causing inherited neuropathies / Michael E. Shy, John Kamholz, and Jun Li; title: Guillain-Barré syndrome and the Schwann cell / Richard A.C. Hughes; title: Chronic idiopathic demyelinating polyneuropathy and Schwann cells / John D. Pollard.