Acute Neuronal Injury: The Role of Excitotoxic Programmed Cell Death Mechanisms

Denson G. Fujikawa

Springer US, Nov 18, 2009 - Medical - 306 pages

This book sets out to explain the clinically relevant basic mechanisms of excitotoxic neuronal death, which in the adult mammalian brain is morphologically necrotic, not apoptotic, and which involve caspase-independent mechanisms of programmed cell death.

About the author

Dr. Denson Fujikawa is an Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, a member of the Brain Research Institute at UCLA and a Staff Neurologist at the Department of Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. His interest in mechanisms of nerve cell death in the brain began during a two-year epilepsy research fellowship with Dr. Claude Wasterlain, from 1981 to 1983. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and is a member of the American Epilepsy Society, American Neurological Association, International Society for Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism and the Society for Neuroscience.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Acute Neuronal Injury: The Role of Excitotoxic Programmed Cell Death Mechanisms
• Editor: Denson G. Fujikawa
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer US, 2009
• ISBN: 038773225X, 9780387732251
• Length: 306 pages
• Subjects: Medical / General; Medical / Neurology; Medical / Neuroscience; Medical / Pathology; Medical / Psychiatry / General; Science / Life Sciences / Cell Biology; Science / Life Sciences / Molecular Biology; Science / Life Sciences / Neuroscience; Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General