Hormones in neurodegeneration, neuroprotection, and neurogenesis /

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Imprint:Weinheim, Germany : Wiley-Blackwell, c2011.
Description:xxvii, 375 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8389958
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Other authors / contributors:Gravanis, Achille G.
Mellon, Synthia H.
ISBN:9783527326273 (alk. paper)
3527326278 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Estrogen
  • Interactions of estradiol and insulin-like growth factor-I in neuroprotection: implications for brain aging and neurodegeneration
  • Structure-nongenomic neuroprotection relationship of estrogens and estrogen-derived compounds
  • Progestins
  • Progestins and Neuroprotection: Why the choice of progestin matters
  • Endogenous and synthetic neurosteroids in treatment of Niemann-Pick Type C disease
  • Glucocorticoids
  • Glucocorticoids, developmental "programming" and the risk of affective dysfunction
  • Regulation of structural plasticity and neurogenesis during stress and diabetes; protective effects of glucocorticoid receptor antagonists
  • Other Neurosteroids
  • Neuroactive steroids and peripheral neuropathy
  • Neuroprotective and neurogenic properties of dehydroepiandrosterone and its synthetic analogs
  • Neurosteroids and pain
  • Polypeptide Hormones and Neuroprotection
  • The insulin /
  • IGF-1 system in neurodegeneration and neurovascular disease
  • Leptin Neuroprotection in Central Nervous System
  • Somatostatin and neuroprotection in retina
  • Neurotrophic effects of PACAP in the cerebellar cortex
  • The corticotropin releasing hormone in neuroprotection
  • Neuroprotective and neurogenic effects of erythropoietin
  • Hormones and Neurogenesis
  • Thyroid hormone actions on glioma cells
  • Gonadal hormones, neurosteroids and clinical progestins as neurogenic regenerative agents: Therapeutic implications
  • Progestins: Obligatory developmental functions from embryogenesis through to the adult brain
  • Human neural progenitor cells: mitotic and neurogenic effects of growth factors, neurosteroids, and excitatory amino acids
  • Corticosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone and neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus