Mechanisms of Secondary Brain Damage from Trauma and Ischemia: Recent Advances of our Understanding (Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement, Band 89) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3211209328 ISBN 13: 9783211209325

Verlag: Springer, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Secondary brain damage - the basic sciences.- Knowledge matters.- Gene profiling - chances and challenges.- Role of mitochondrial proteins for neuronal cell death after focal cerebral ischemia.- Signalling mechanisms for survival of lesioned motoneurons.- Genetically modified animals in molecular stroke research.- Progress in the understanding of brain injury from ischemia.- The Janus face of inflammation in ischemic brain injury.- The natural course of lesion development in brain ischemia.- Pharmalogical preconditioning in global cerebral ischemia.- Traumatic brain and spinal cordinjury - the experimental approach.- The role of inflammatory processes in the pathophysiology and treatment of brain and spinal cord trauma.- L-type calcium channel antagonist nifedipine reduces neurofilament restitution following traumatic optic nerve injury.- Neuronal activity and cortical perfusion determined by quantitative EEG analysis and laser Doppler flowmetry are uncoupled in brain injured rats.- Glial scar and axonal regeneration in the CNS: lessons from GFAP and vimentin transgenic mice.- Traumatic brain and spinal cord injury - clinical progress including treatment.- Recovery from spinal cord injury - underlying mechanisms and efficacy of rehabilitation.- Lessons from epidemiologic studies in clinical trials of traumatic brain injury.- The MRC CRASH trial - a large, simple randomised trial of steroids in head injury.- Clinical trials in traumatic brain injury: current problems and future solutions.- Prospective documentation and analysis of the pre- and early clinical management in severe head injury in Southern Bavaria at a population based level.- Author Index.- Index of Keywords.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3211209328
• ISBN 13: 9783211209325
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 140
• Herausgeber: Baethmann A., Eriskat J., Lehmberg J., Plesnila N.
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