The neuronal environment : brain homeostasis in health and disease /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, 2002.
Description:	x, 432 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Contemporary neuroscience
Subject:	Neurons -- Physiology. Homeostasis. Neuroglia. Brain -- Metabolism. Blood-brain barrier. Blood-brain barrier. Brain -- Metabolism. Homeostasis. Neuroglia. Neurons -- Physiology.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4603756

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Other authors / contributors:	Walz, Wolfgang.
ISBN:	0896038823 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Contributors
I.. Neuronal Activity and Its Dependence on the Microenvironment
1. Central Nervous System Microenvironment and Neuronal Excitability
2. Neuronal Energy Requirements
II.. Brain Microenvironment
3. Plasticity of the Extracellular Space
4. Transmitter-Receptor Mismatches in Central Dopamine, Serotonin, and Neuropeptide Systems: Further Evidence for Volume Transmission
5. The Extracellular Matrix in Neural Development, Plasticity, and Regeneration
6. Homeostatic Properties of Astrocytes
7. Glutamate-Mediated Astrocyte-Neuron Communication in Brain Physiology and Pathology
8. Axonal Conduction and Myelin
9. Coupling of Blood Flow to Neuronal Excitability
III.. Brain Macroenvironment
10. Choroid Plexus and the Cerebrospinal-Interstitial Fluid System
11. The Blood-Brain Barrier
12. Circumventricular Organs
13. Glial Linings of the Brain
IV.. Immune System-Neuron Interactions
14. Microglia in the CNS
15. Invasion of Ischemic Brain by Immune Cells
Index

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