Neurovascular medicine
Subtitle: pursuing cellular longevity for healthy aging
By: [edited by] Kenneth Maiese.
Contributors: Maiese, Kenneth, 1958-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780195326697
Subjects: Pathology, Cellular; Pathology, Molecular; Nervous system -- Degeneration; Inflammation -- Mediators; Nervous System Physiology; Aging -- physiology; Cell Physiology; Neurodegenerative Diseases -- prevention & control; Neurons -- physiology
Description: Disorders of the nervous and vascular systems continue to burden the planet's population not only with increasing morbidity and mortality, but also with a significant financial drain through increasing medical care costs coupled to a progressive loss in economic productivity. For example, more than 500 million individuals suffer from nervous and vascular system disorders in the world that comprise both acute and chronic degenerative diseases such as hypertension, cardiac insufficiency, diabetes mellitus, stroke, traumatic brain injury, and Alzheimer's disease. The authors of this monograph strive to lay the course for the continued progression of innovative investigations and especially those that examine previously unexplored pathways of cell biology with new avenues of study for the maintenance of healthy aging and extended cellular longevity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Role of prion protein during normal physiology and disease / Adriana Simon Coitinho and Glaucia N.M. Hajj; title: Role of protein kinase C and related pathways in vascular smooth muscle contraction and hypertension / Xiaoying Qiao and Raouf A. Khalil; title: Brain temperature regulation during normal neural function and neuropathology / Eugene A. Kiyatkin; title: Retinal cellular metabolism and its regulation and control / Dao-Yi Yu ... [et al.]; title: Crosstalk between the autonomic nervous system and the central nervous system: mechanistic and therapeutic considerations for neuronal, immune, vascular, and somatic based diseases / Fuad Lechin and Bertha van der Dijs; title: Neurobiology of chronic pain / Min Zhuo; title: Physiological effects and disease manifestations of performance enhancing androgenic-anabolic steroids, growth hormone, and insulin / Michael R. Graham ... [et al.]; title: Mesenchymal stem cells and transdifferentiated neurons in crosstalk with the tissue microenvironment: implications for translational science / Katarzyna A. Trzaska ... [et al.]; title: Motoneurons from human embryonic stem cells: present status and future strategies for their use in regenerative medicine / K.S.Sidhu; title: Adult neurogenesis, neuroinflammation, and therapeutic potential of adult neural stem cells / Philippe Taupin; title: Glutamatergic signaling in neurogenesis / Noritaka Nakamichi and Yukio Yoneda; title: Neuroimmune interactions that operate in the development and progression of inflammatory demyelinating diseases: lessons from pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis / Enrico Fainardi and Massimiliano Castellazzi; title: Brain inflammation and the neuronal fate: from neurogenesis to neurodegeneration / Maria Antonietta Ajmone-Cat, Emanuele Cacci, and Luisa Minghetti; title: Immunomodulation in the nervous and vascular systems during inflammation and autoimmunity: the role of T regulatory cells / Kokona Chatzantoni and Athanasia Mouzaki; title: Alzheimer's disease: is it caused by cerebrovascular dysfunction? / Christian Humpel; title: Proteases in beta-amyloid metabolism: potential therapeutic targets against Alzheimer's disease / Noureddine Brakch and Mohamed Rholam; title: Neurobiology of post-ischemic recuperation in the aged mammalian brain / Aurel Popa-Wagner ... [et al.]; title: Protein misfolding, mitochondrial disturbances, and kynurenines in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders / Gabriella Gárdián ... [et al.]; title: Redox signaling and vascular function / J. Will Langston, Magdalena L. Circu, and Tak Yee Aw; title: Gene therapy toward clinical application in the cardiovascular field / Hironori Nakagami, Mariana Kiomy Osako, and Ryuichi Morishita; title: Role of advanced glycation end products, oxidative stress, and inflammation in diabetic vascular complications / Sho-ichi Yamagishi, Takanori Matsui, Kazuo Nakamura; title: Reducing oxidative stress and enhancing neurovascular longevity during diabetes mellitus / Kenneth Maiese, Zhao Zhong Chong, and Faqi Li.