基本説明
The major reference text in the field, providing broad and comprehensive coverage of the interaction between the nervous and immune systems in both normal and diseased states.
Full Description
Clinical Neurimmunology is the major reference text in the field, providing broad and comprehensive coverage of the interaction between the nervous and immune systems in both normal and diseased states. Understanding this interaction is fundamental to developing therapeutic approaches to disease and injury of the nervous system that are currently only marginally amenable to therapy. Neuroimmunology is a well-recognised and growing specialty world wide, both at the basic science and clinical level. It is a fast moving field and this is the most up to date text available. Chapters are dedicated to the role of the immune system in disorders affecting both the central and peripheral nervous systems, including important neurodegenerative diseases (such as multiple sclerosis and HIV-related neural degeneration) which cause life-long disability. Extensive coverage is given to a whole array of immune-directed therapies.
The book has a strong international team of well respected, high profile editors and authors. The first edition published to extensive and positive reviews and has established itself as the principal reference source in the field. This second edition summarizes recent advances in clinical neuroimmunology in a comprehensive and unbiased way.
Contents
1. A brief history of neuroimmunology ; 2. Basics of immunology ; 3. Assessing immune function in clinical neuroimmunologic disease ; 4. Principles of autoimmunity ; 5. Principles of immunotherapy ; 5b Organisation and development of the central nervous system ; 6. Immunology properties of the CNS ; 7. Role of the immune response in neuroprotection and repair ; 8. Immunology properties of the PNS ; 9. Genetics of immune-mediated neurologic diseases ; 10. Principles of immune-virus interactions in the nervous system ; 11. Immunity of bacterial infections ; 12. Animal models of neuroimmunologic disease ; 13. Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis ; 14. Multiple Sclerosis - immunopathology ; 15. Multiple Sclerosis - effects of immune mediators on neurophysiologic function ; 16. Multiple Sclerosis - monitoring the immuno-biology by neuroimaging ; 17. Clinical immunology ; 18. Multiple Sclerosis - immune-directed therapy ; 19. Acute Inflammatory Neuropathies ; 20. Chronic inflammatory neuropathies ; 21. Antibody mediated disorders of the neuromuscular junction ; 22. Inflammatory diseases of muscle ; 23. HIV infection and the nervous system ; 24. HTLV-1 infection and the nervous system ; 25. Lyme disease ; 26. Paraneoplastic syndromes ; 27. Paraproteinemic neuropathies ; 28. Bechet's disease ; 29. Role of neural-immune interactions in neurodegenerative diseases ; 30. CNS neoplastic diseases and the immune system ; 31. Vasculitis disorders of the nervous system ; 32. Psycho-neuro immunology ; 33. Regeneration of the CNS ; 34. Immunological aspects of cerebal ischemia ; 35. Antibodies and CNS disorders ; 36. Immunologic dictionary
