2nd Edition

Cytokines and the CNS

Edited By Richard M. Ransohoff, Etty N. Benveniste Copyright 2006
384 Pages
by CRC Press

382 Pages
by CRC Press

384 Pages
by CRC Press

Provides Insight into How Cytokine Action Impacts the Physiology and Pathology of the CNS. As with the first edition of Cytokines and the CNS, this completely updated and revised edition introduces neurobiologists to cytokine biology and immunologists to the unique functions of cytokines in CNS physiology. The dramatically accelerating interest in cytokines and cytokine/chemokine signaling... Read more
The CNS: Cells, Tissues and Reactions to Insult. Cytokines – Wherefrom and Whereto. Cytokine Receptors. Cytokines and Signaling. Inflammatory Complexities in the CNS: New Insights into the Effects of Intracellular Redox State and Viral Infection in Modulating the Biology of Oligodendrocytes and Their Precursor Cells. Cytokines and Development of the Nervous System. Cytokines and CNS Inflammation. Cytokines and Immune Regulation in the Nervous System. Cytokines and Neurodegeneration. Cytokine Expression and Signaling in Brain Tumors. Cytokines and Defense Pathology of the CNS. Cytokines and Multiple Sclerosis. Cytokines in Brain Trauma and Spinal Cord Injury. Cytokine-Based Therapeutics for Intrinsic CNS Disease Processes.

Biography

Richard M. Ransohoff, Etty N. Benveniste