Axonal transport and motor neuron disease

• Describes cytoskeleton in axonal development and pathology, microtubules and associated proteins, neurofilaments and interacting proteins, actin and its binding proteins, and glial fibrillary acidic protein 2. Focuses on functional significance of neuronal cytoskeleton in axonal transport 3. Encourages further development of unifying principles, stimulates new conceptual and technical approaches toward a better understanding of cytoskeleton functions in health and disease Without a cytoskeleton, a neuron or glial cell would be a shapeless jelly mass unable to function in the milieu of the brain. If we are to understand neuronal cells function in health and disease, we must determine how the cytoskeleton forms and contributes to neural physiology and pathobiology. Cytoskeleton of the Nervous System provides a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date account of what we now know and what we want to know in the near future--about the functioning of the cytoskeleton of neuronal cells at the molecular level. In lively accounts, which are unafraid to address controversy, Cytoskeleton of the Nervous System introduces readers to the most sophisticated concepts and latest discoveries: from overexpression systems to knock-out models for specific cytoskeletal proteins, from continuous transport assays in vivo to live-cell imaging in primary neurons, and from factors regulating cytoskeleton behavior to the dysregulation of these processes leading to neurological disease.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Biologi -- Biokemi och molekylärbiologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Biological Sciences -- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Axonal transport

Dynein

Kinesin

Motor neuron

SOD1

Cell and molecular biology

Cell- och molekylärbiologi

neurokemi med molekylär neurobiologi

Neurochemistry with Molecular Neurobiology

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