Brain Plasticity: Development and Aging - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

I. Regulatory Mechanisms of Expression of Neuronal and Glial Phenotypes.- I. Genes Controlling Neural Fate and Differentiation.- 2. Neuronal Plasticity in Development: Lessons from Ethanol Neurotoxicity during Embryogenesis.- 3. Plasticity in Astrocytic Phenotypes: A Role For PKC, Tyrosine Kinases, and Cytoskeleton Signaling.- 4. Neuron-Glia Cross Talk in Rat Striatum after Transient Forebrain Ischemia.- 5. Regulation of Oligodendrocyte Differentiation by Fibroblast Growth Factors.- 6. Features and Functions of Human Microglia Cells.- 7. Migration and Proliferation of Mononuclear Phagocytes in the Central Nervous System.- 8. K+-Channels and Cytokines as Markers for Microglial Activation.- II. Neuronal Circuitry, Synaptic Plasticity, Regeneration.- 9. Anatomical and Functional Characteristics of Transplanted Monoaminergic Neurons in Paraplegic Rats.- 10. Regulation by Neurotransmitters of Glial Energy Metabolism.- 11. Dendritic Development of Visual Callosal Neurons.- 12. Neuronal and Non-Neuronal Plasticity in the Rat following Myenteric Denervation.- III. Neuronal Cell Death, Neuroprotection.- 13. Nerve Growth Factor and Oxidative Stress in the Nervous System.- 14. Role of Astrocytes in Glutamate Homeostasis: Implications for Excitotoxicity.- 15. Nerve Cell Death Induced by Ca2+ Ionophores in Dissociated Hippocampal Cultures: Protective Action of the NMDA Antagonist MK-801.- 16. Is Increased Neurotoxicity a Burden of the Ageing Brain?.- 17. Alzheimer Disease: From Molecular Biology to Therapy.- IV. Neurotrophins and Neuromodulators, Neurohormones, Cell Adhesion Molecules.- 18. Steroid and Protein Regulators of Glial Cell Proliferation.- 19. Estrogens Influence Growth, Maturation, and Amyloid ? Peptide Production in Neuroblastoma Cells and in a ?-APP TransfectedKidney 293 Cell Line.- 20. Role of Testosterone in the Activation of Sexual Behavior and Neuronal Circuitries in the Senescent Brain.- 21. Endogenous Opioids and Prenatal Determinants of Neuroplasticity.- 22. Brain Plasticity and the Neural Cell Adhesion Molecule (NCAM).

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