Title | Molecular Pathology of Nerve and Muscle [electronic resource] : Noxious Agents and Genetic Lesions / edited by Antony D. Kidman, John K. Tomkins, Carol A. Morris, Neil A. Cooper |
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Imprint | Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 1983 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5308-2 |
Descript | XVI, 416 p. online resource |
I. Experimental Neurology -- The Regulation of Schwann Cell Function in Degenerative Disorders of the Nervous System -- The Sympathetic Nervous System: A Novel Perspective on the Control of Myelinating Schwann Cells -- The Schmidt-Lanterman Cleft in the Myelin Sheath: Studies in Chicken Nerves -- Interaction Between Neuronal Sets During Brain Development -- Maturation of Post-Synaptic Densities in Chicken Forebrain -- Immune Diseases of the Peripheral Nervous System -- Factors Underlying Ascending Paralysis in Rodents during Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE) -- The Influence of Upper Motor Neurones on Excitation-Contraction Coupling in Mammalian Skeletal Muscle -- Effect of Electric Fields on Nerve Regeneration and Functional Recovery in the Cat Hindlimb -- Properties of Cross and Self-Reinnervating Motor Axons in the Cat -- Morphometric Assessment of Peripheral Nerve -- II. Toxic Models of Disease -- Selective Defects in Axonal Transport in Neuropathological Processes -- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Toxic and Animal Models -- Excitotoxins -- Toxic Effects of Glutamic Acid Analogues on Retinal Neurons -- III. Behavioral Neurology -- Stress Hormones and Health -- Stress and Work Behaviour -- Stress, Catecholamines and Ischaemic Heart Disease -- Herbicides and the Development of Brain and Behaviour a Study in Behavioural Toxicology -- The Effects of Heavy Metal Exposure on Behaviour -- The Effect of Stress on Central Nervous System Protein Phosphorylation and Cyclic AMP -- IV. Neuromuscular Pathology -- Physiological Mechanisms for the Regulation of Protein Balance in Skeletal Muscle -- Therapeutic Strategies for Protein Wasting States -- Skeletal Muscle Fiber Bundles for the Study of Protein Turnover in Normal and Dystrophic Mouse Tissue -- The Effect of the Loss of Weight-Bearing Function on the Isomyosin Profile and Contractile Properties of Rat Skeletal Muscles -- Lipoproteins in Plasma of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Patients and Female Carriers -- Trophic Influences of Nerve on Skeletal Muscle Sarcolemma