Molecular neurology
By: edited by Stephen G. Waxman.
Contributors: Waxman, Stephen G.
Publisher: Elsevier Academic Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Burlington, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780123695093
Subjects: Nervous System Diseases -- genetics; Nervous System Diseases -- physiopathology; Nervous System Diseases -- therapy; Molecular Biology; Neurology; Molecular neurobiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Genetics as a tool in neurology; title: Neurology and genomic medicine; title: Mitochondrial function and dysfunction in the nervous system; title: Neuronal channels and receptors; title: Protein misfolding, chaperone networks, and the heat shock response in the nervous system; title: Metabolic biopsy of the brain; title: Gene therapy approaches in neurology; title: Programmed cell death and its role in neurological disease; title: Developmental neurology: a molecular perspective; title: Metabolic diseases of the nervous sytsem; title: Genetic disorders of neuromuscular development; title: Molecular mechanisms of ischemic brain disease; title: Hemorrhagic brain disease; title: The Dawn of molecular and cellular therapies for traumatic spinal cord injury; title: Parkinson disease: molecular insights; title: The Molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease; title: Polyglutamine disorders including Huntington's disease; title: Friedreich's ataxia and related DNA loss-of-function disorders; title: DYT1, an inherited dystonia; title: Motor neuron disease: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; title: Genetic disorders of the autonomic nervous system; title: Multiple sclerosis as a neurodegenerative disease; title: Acquired epilepsy: cellular and molecular mechanisms; title: Genetic epilepsies; title: Tourette's syndrome; title: Disorders of sleep and circadian rhythms; title: Chronic pain as a molecular disorder; title: Migraine as a cerebral ionopathy with impaired central sensory processing; title: Myelin protein zero and CMT 1 B: a tale of two phenotypes; title: Demyelinating diseases: immunological mechanisms in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis; title: Autoimmune and genetic disorders of the neuromuscular junction and motor nerve terminal; title: Paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes; title: Mitochondrial disorders; title: Molecular neurology of HIV-1 infection and AIDS.