Alcohol and glial cells/

Corporate Author: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (U.S.)
Other Authors: Lancaster, Francine E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bethesda, Md.: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 1994
Series:NIH publication Research monograph (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (U.S.)) no. 94-3742
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • 1. Astrocytes and their functions, past and present
  • 2. Oligodendrocytes and myelin in the neonatal and adult central nervous system: a framework for examining the effects of toxins
  • 3. Microglia in the pathological brain
  • 4. Effects of alcohol on glial cell development in vivo: morphological studies
  • 5. Effects of ethanol on substrate uptake and incorporation in primary astrocyte cultures
  • 6. Alcohol-induced changes in astrocyte gene expression during central nervous system development: methods and mechanisms
  • 7. Fetal alcohol exposure and glial cell development
  • 8. Alcohol and neuroimmume dysfuctions of the central nervous system
  • 9. The stimulation of compensatory functional changes and repair mechanisms in chronic alcoholism: activated astrocytes as a source of neurotrophins
  • 10. Induction of nitric oxide synthase in brain glial cells: possible interaction with ethanol in reactive neuronal injury
  • 11. The astrocyte in alcoholic liver disease
  • 12. H Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging separates neuronal from glial in alcohol-related brain atrophy
  • 13. Alcohol and glial cells: areas for future research