Protective and Pathological Immune Responses in the CNS (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Dietzschold, B.; Richt, J. A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

We are only at an early stage of understanding the complexity of interactions between pathogens, CNS resident cells of differents types, infiltrating immune/inflammatory cells, and the factors they produce. However, as the reader will see, there are common features of the innate immune response to most CNS insults.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783662095256
• Artikelnr.: 53157095

Autorenporträt

Bernhard Dietzschold, Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA, USA / Jürgen A. Richt, USDA-ARS National Animal Disease Center, Ames, IA, USA

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contents.- Hierarchy of Immune Responses to Antigen in the Normal Brain.- Cytokines and Chemokines as Mediators of Protection and Injury in the Central Nervous System Assessed in Transgenic Mice.- Cytokines in Degenerative Brain Diseases: Lessons from Transgenic Animals.- Innate Immune Responses in Viral Encephalitis.- Apoptosis in Viral Infections of Neurons: a Protective or Pathologic Host Response?.- Markers of Central Nervous System Glia and Neurons In Vivo During Normal and Pathological Conditions.- The Role of T Cells in Brain Pathology.- Immunopathology and Immunoprotection in CNS Virus Infections: Mechanisms of Virus Clearance from the CNS.- HIV-1 and the Central Nervous System.- HTLV-1-Mediated Immunopathological CNS Disease.- Listeria monocytogenes: a Model System to Study Invasion and Spread of Bacteria in the Central Nervous System.- Parasites and the Brain: Neuroinvasion, Immunopathogenesis and Neuronal Dysfunctions.- Immune Responses in Glioblastoma: an Avenue to Effective Cancer Therapy or a Mere Epiphenomenon?.