Molecular neurology / Stephen Waxman.

Author/creator Waxman, Stephen G.
Format Book
Publication InfoBurlington, MA : Elsevier Academic Press, ©2007.
Descriptionix, 584 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Subjects
Nervous System Diseases--genetics.
Nervous System Diseases--physiopathology.

Contents Genetics as a tool in neurology -- Neurology and genomic medicine -- Mitochondrial function and dysfunction in the nervous system -- Neuronal channels and receptors -- Protein misfolding, chaperone networks, and the heat shock response in the nervous system -- Metabolic biopsy of the brain -- Gene therapy approaches in neurology -- Programmed cell death and its role in neurological disease -- Developmental neurology: a molecular perspective -- Metabolic diseases of the nervous sytsem -- Genetic disorders of neuromuscular development -- Molecular mechanisms of ischemic brain disease -- Hemorrhagic brain disease -- The Dawn of molecular and cellular therapies for traumatic spinal cord injury -- Parkinson disease: molecular insights -- The Molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease -- Polyglutamine disorders including Huntington's disease -- Friedreich's ataxia and related DNA loss-of-function disorders -- DYT1, an inherited dystonia -- Motor neuron disease: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Genetic disorders of the autonomic nervous system -- Multiple sclerosis as a neurodegenerative disease -- Acquired epilepsy: cellular and molecular mechanisms -- Genetic epilepsies -- Tourette's syndrome -- Disorders of sleep and circadian rhythms -- Chronic pain as a molecular disorder -- Migraine as a cerebral ionopathy with impaired central sensory processing -- Myelin protein zero and CMT 1 B: a tale of two phenotypes -- Demyelinating diseases: immunological mechanisms in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis -- Autoimmune and genetic disorders of the neuromuscular junction and motor nerve terminal -- Paraneoplastic neurologic syndromes -- Mitochondrial disorders -- Molecular neurology of HIV-1 infection and AIDS.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN9780123695093 (hbk.) :
ISBN0123695090 (hbk.)

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Laupus Books - Stacks WL 140 M718 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold