Neuroimmune pharmacology. /
Edited by Tsuneya Ikezu and Howard E. Gendleman
- New York: Springer, 2008.
- xlix, 827 p. : ill. (some col) ; 1 CD [inside back cover]
Includes glossary and index.
Contents: Introducing neoroimmune pharmacology -- Part 1: Immunology of he nervous system: Innate and adaptive immunity in health and disease -- Anatomical networks-structure and function of the nervous system -- The blood brain barrier --Anterior chamber and retina -- Hippocampus and spatial memory -- Glial and neuronal cellular composition, biology, and physiology -- Astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and schwann cells -- Macrophages, microglia, and dendritic cells -- Neuronal and glial signaling -- The vertebrate retina -- Lymphocytes and the nervous system -- STem cells --Neurobiology and neural systems -- Cytokines and chemokines -- CNS cell signaling -- Part 2: Nervous system diseases and immunity- clinicaldescriptions -- Multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating deisease -- Guillain-Barre syndrome, Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, and axonal degeneration and regeneration -- Guillain-Barre syndrome -- Autoimmune disease -- NueroAIDS --HTLV-I/II -- Viral encephalitis -- Alzheimer's disease -- Parkinson's disease -- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Huntingson's disease -- Prion diseases -- Glaucoma -- Sroke and cerebrovacular diesease -- Neurogenesis and brain repair -- Familail neurodegenerative diseases and single nucleotide polymorphisms -- The neuroimmune system in psychiatric disorders -- Major depression, bipolar syndromes, and schizophrenia -- Molecular pathogenesis for schizophrenia and major depression -- Drugs of abuse and the immune system -- Part 3: Therapeutics Neuropharmacology -- Neurodegenerative diseases -- Multiple sclerosis -- Immuniotherapy -- Alzhemimer's disease -- Parkinson's disease and amyotrohic lateral sclerosis -- Protective and regenerative autoimmunity in CNS injury -- Adjuvants -- Polymer nanometerials --Gene therapy and vaccciantion -- Proteomics and genomics -- Neuroimaging --