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Cerebral Ischemia

Molecular and Cellular Pathophysiology

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Wolfgang Walz

    1. Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

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Part of the book series: Contemporary Neuroscience (CNEURO)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Overview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Mechanisms of Cerebral Ischemic Damage

      • Costantino Iadecola
      Pages 3-32

  3. Factors in the Brain Microenvironment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. Spreading Depression Waves as Mediators of Secondary Injury and of Protective Mechanisms

      • Anna Irwin, Wolfgang Walz
      Pages 35-44

    3. Cell Swelling in Cerebral Ischemia

      • Harold K. Kimelberg
      Pages 45-67

    4. Calcium Overload

      • Paul Morley, Joseph S. Tauskela, Antoine M. Hakim
      Pages 69-104

    5. Oxygen Radicals

      • Pak H. Chan
      Pages 105-123

    6. Mechanisms of Neuroprotective Cytokines

      • Annadora J. Bruce-Keller, Mark P. Mattson
      Pages 125-142

  4. Cellular Changes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-143
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    2. Reprogramming of Gene Expression After Ischemia

      • Thaddeus S. Nowak Jr., Marika Kiessling
      Pages 145-215

    3. Neurons

      • Koji Abe
      Pages 217-232

    4. Reactive Astrogliosis in the Injured and Postischemic Brain

      • Ronald Jabs, Lane K. Bekar, Wolfgang Walz
      Pages 233-249

    5. Activated and Phagocytic Microglia

      • Yoichi Kondo
      Pages 251-269

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 271-278
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About this book

The human brain represents about 2% of the body weight, yet it accounts for approximately 20% of aerobic metabolism. This high dependency on energy-consuming processes is mainly caused by the active transport of ions, which is necessary to compensate for the transmembrane ion currents that are part ofthe complex signaling processes in the brain. Ninety-five percent ofthe brain's ATP is derived from mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. Since that organ' s storage capacity for oxygen is minimal, any interruption of oxygen delivery to brain cells willlead to changes in membrane excitability and, there­ fore, to disruption of neuronal signaling within seconds. It seems that mamma­ lian brain is especially vulnerable to such an interruption, since oxygen deprivation leads to activation of ion channel mechanisms in neurons that impair their communications. Thus, the function of the brain as a coordinator of vital homeostatic reflexes, and complex body reactions to external challenges, depends critically on the rate of oxygen delivery and oxygen consumption. Oxygen delivery depends on two variables described in the Fick relation­ ship: volume flow rate ofblood and the arterial oxygen content. A reduction in either of these two variables will have serious effects on vital brain func­ tions. Reduction of arterial blood flow to the brain can be caused by cardiac arrest, shock, carotid occlusion, Of hypotension (global ischemia). Oxygen content is progressively decreased in asphyxia (including drowning).

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"...The book will be useful for new entrants to the field of cerebral ischaemia and will also be of value to workers in the field who wish to get up to speed in aspects in which they are not primarily active. The reviews are, on the whole, well written and extensively referenced, and personally, I found the chapters on gene expression and cytokines most interesting." -Brain

"...a clear source of knowledge for interested practitioners....The first part gives a clear overview of the mechanisms involved in cerebral ischemic damage....Each chapter of this book can be consulted on itself. Nevertheless, it gives a very homogeneous and coherent impression."-Acta Neurologica Belgica

"In this book, the editor, Wolfgang Walz, and a panel of experts in the field of cerebral ischemia give a broad insight into the current knowledge of molecular and cellular events occurring in the brain parenchyma during cerebral ischemia. The book is well structured....this book gives a useful summary of molecular and cellular aspects of cerebral ischemia, its length (284 pp.) makes it easily readable, and it can be recommended as an introduction to the field of clinicians and researchers interested in stroke."-European Neurology

"The author reviews also multiple therapeutic strategies corresponding to those various events induced by brain ischaemia....Very fundamental data related to the last developments of molecular biology, such as the reprogramming of gene expression after ischaemia and the neuronal death due to necrosis or apoptosis, are emphasized...Experts in the fields wrote the various chapters that include a very extensive bibliography. The book can be recommended to scientists concerned with basic mechanisms of brain ischaemia as well as to clinicians whose goal is the prevention of irreversible brain damage and he development of new therapies."-Acta Cardiologica

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

    Wolfgang Walz

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cerebral Ischemia

  • Book Subtitle: Molecular and Cellular Pathophysiology

  • Editors: Wolfgang Walz

  • Series Title: Contemporary Neuroscience

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-479-5

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-540-9Published: 25 March 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4757-4735-5Published: 24 March 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-59259-479-5Published: 25 March 1999

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 278

  • Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Neurology

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