Hormones in neurodegeneration, neuroprotection, and neurogenesis. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Achille G. Gravanis and Synthia H. Mellon.
• Other Names: Gravanis, Achille G; Mellon, Synthia H
• Contents: PREFACE; ESTROGEN; Interactions of estradiol and insulin-like growth factor-I in neuroprotection: implications for brain aging and neurodegeneration (Maria-Angeles Arevalo, Luis M. Garcia-Segura and Inigo Azcoitia); Structure-nongenomic neuroprotection relationship of estrogens and estrogen-derived compounds (James W. Simpkins, Kun Don Yi, Evelyn Perez and Douglas Covey); ; PROGESTINS; Progestins and Neuroprotection: Why the choice of progestin matters (Meharvan Singh); Endogenous and synthetic neurosteroids in treatment of Niemann-Pick Type C disease (Synthia H. Mellon, Wenhui Gong and Marcus D. Schonemann); ; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; Glucocorticoids, developmental "programming" and the risk of affective dysfunction (Bayanne Olabi and Jonathan Seckl); Regulation of structural plasticity and neurogenesis during stress and diabetes; protective effects of glucocorticoid receptor antagonists (Paul J. Lucassen, Carlos P. Fitzsimons, Erno Vreugdenhil, Pu Hu, Charlotte Oomen, Yanina Revsin, Marian Joels and E. Ron De Kloet); ; OTHER NEUROSTEROIDS; Neuroactive steroids and peripheral neuropathy (Roberto C. Melcangi, Silvia Giatti, Marzia Pesaresi, Donatella Caruso and Marc J. Tetel); Neuroprotective and neurogenic properties of dehydroepiandrosterone and its synthetic analogs (Ioannis Charalampopoulos, Iakovos Lazaridis and Achille Gravanis); Neurosteroids and pain (Christine Patte-Mensah, Laurence Meyer, Veronique Schaeffer, Cherkaouia Kibaly and Ayikoe G. Mensah-Nyagan); ; POLYPEPTIDE HORMONES AND NEUROPROTECTION; The insulin /; IGF-1 system in neurodegeneration and neurovascular disease (Przemyslaw (Mike) Sapieha and Lois Smith); Leptin Neuroprotection in Central Nervous System (Feng Zhang, Suping Wang, Armando P. Signore Zhongfang Weng and Jun Chen); Somatostatin and neuroprotection in retina (Kyriaki Thermos); Neurotrophic effects of PACAP in the cerebellar cortex (Anthony Falluel-Morel, Hubert Vaudry, Hitoshi Komuro, Dariusz C Gorecki, Ludovic Galas and David Vaudry); The corticotropin releasing hormone in neuroprotection (Christian Behl and Angela Clement); Neuroprotective and neurogenic effects of erythropoietin (Helmar C. Lehmann and Ahmet Hoke); ; HORMONES AND NEUROGENESIS; Thyroid hormone actions on glioma cells (Min Zhou, Harold K. Kimelberg, Faith B. Davis, Paul J. Davis); Gonadal hormones, neurosteroids and clinical progestins as neurogenic regenerative agents: Therapeutic implications (Lifei Liu and Roberta Diaz Brinton); Progestins: Obligatory developmental functions from embryogenesis through to the adult brain (Craig S. Atwood and Sivan Vadakkadath Meethal); Human neural progenitor cells: mitotic and neurogenic effects of growth factors, neurosteroids, and excitatory amino acids (Masatoshi Suzuki, Jacalyn McHugh and Narisorn Kitiyanant); Corticosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone and neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus (Joe Herbert and Scarlett B. Pinnock);
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (404 pages)
• Subjects: 612.8; Neurohormones; Higher nervous activity -- Endocrine aspects; Nervous system -- Degeneration -- Endocrine aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783527633975
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