Degeneration and Regeneration in the Nervous System

Norman Saunders, Katarzyna Dziegielewska

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2000
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040215654
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Biology

Degeneration and Regeneration in the Nervous System brings together an international team of contributors to produce a series of critical reviews appraising key papers in the field. The pace of research on brain and spinal cord injury quickened considerably in the last ten years and there is much that is new and important that is covered in this bo

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Contributors
• Introduction
• Abbreviations
• 1 Repair after spinal cord injury: A clinical perspective
• 2 Recovery from injury in the immature mammalian spinal cord
• 3 Intrinsic determinants of differential axonal regeneration by adult mammalian central nervous system neurons
• 4 Inflammation and the glial scar: Factors at the site of injury that influence regeneration in the central nervous system
• 5 Intrinsic neuronal and extrinsic glial determinants of axonal regeneration in the injured spinal cord
• 6 Evolutionary hierarchy of optic nerve regeneration: Implications for cell survival, axon outgrowth and map formation
• 7 The role of cytoskeleton in regeneration of central nervous system axons
• 8 What types of bridges will best promote axonal regeneration across an area of injury in the adult mammalian spinal cord?
• 9 Use of cell/polymer hybrid structures as conduits for regenerative growth in the central nervous system
• 10 Neural stem cells: Regulation and potential use in neuronal regeneration
• 11 The low affinity neurotrophin receptor, p75: A multifunction molecule with a role in nerve regeneration?
• 12 Regeneration in the peripheral nervous system
• 13 The role of macrophages in degeneration and regeneration in the peripheral nervous system
• 14 The response of the somatosensory system to peripheral nerve injury
• Index