Multiple sclerosis : immunology, pathology, and pathophysiology / Robert M. Herndon, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herndon, Robert M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiple sclerosis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Demos Medical Pub., c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Knowledge has been described as being like an expanding sphere with the volume of knowledge contacting a surface on the unknown. This new comprehensive review of the many fields of basic and clinical research that impact our understanding of multiple sclerosis has its basis in this premise. In doing research on MS, it is not enough to know clinical neurology or neurochemistry or neuroanatomy or pathology; it is important to understand the many other areas that relate to them. This volume provides an overview of MS-related research and will benefit many investigators in the field and help to ad

Contents:

Developments in multiple sclerosis research / Robert M. Herndon

Morphology of oligodendrocytes and myelin / Robert Skoff

Astroctes: morphology and function / Robert M. Herndon

Molecular structure of the myelin membrane / Joyce A. Benjamins

The nature of immunologic privilege in the central nervous system / Zsuzsa Fabry, Matyas Sandor, Diane Sewell, and Emily Reinke

Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis / LaChelle R. Arredondo, Amy Lovett-Racke, and Michael K. Racke

Tissue culture studies of demyelination and remyelination / Frederick J. Seil

Infectious agents and demyelination / John Rose

Viral demyelinating diseases in experimental animals / Jane E. Libbey and Robert S. Fujinami

Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and its association with multiple sclerosis / Harold Moses Jr. and Sabramaniam Sriram

The role of cytokines in multiple sclerosis and experimental allergic encephalomyelitis / Tanuja Chitnis and Samia J. Khoury

Chemokines and their receptors in multiple sclerosis / Richard M. Ransohoff and William J. Karpus

Interferons in multiple sclerosis / Suhayl Dhib-Jalbut

The pathology of multiple sclerosis as revealed by in vivo magnetic resonance-based approaches / Jack H. Simon

Mechanisms of repair, adaptation, and recovery of function in multiple sclerosis / Robert M. Herndon.

Notes:

Companion vol. to: Multiple sclerosis: diagnosis, medical management, and rehabilitation / edited by Jack S. Burks and Kenneth P. Johnson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-97459-5

9786611974596

1-934559-26-1

OCLC:

437177226