Overview
- Editors:
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Rommy von Bernhardi
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Faculty of Medicine Professor of Neurology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
- Covers each of the three major types of glial cells in the CNS
- Timely overview of a growing topic
- Gathers contributions from leading researchers in the field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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- Rommy von Bernhardi, Jaime EugenÃn-von Bernhardi, Betsi Flores, Jaime EugenÃn León
Pages 1-24
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Glial Cell Function in the Healthy Nervous System
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- Jaime EugenÃn-von Bernhardi, Leda Dimou
Pages 27-45
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- Fernando Peña-Ortega, Ana Julia Rivera-Angulo, Jonathan Julio Lorea-Hernández
Pages 47-66
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- Rommy von Bernhardi, Florencia Heredia, Nicole Salgado, Paola Muñoz
Pages 67-92
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- Jaime EugenÃn León, MarÃa José Olivares, Sebastián Beltrán-Castillo
Pages 109-145
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- Bernardo Castellano, Mar Bosch-Queralt, Beatriz Almolda, Nà dia Villacampa, Berta González
Pages 147-165
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- Alejandro D. Roth, Marco T. Núñez
Pages 167-181
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- Felipe A. Court, Jaime Alvarez
Pages 183-201
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Glial Cell Dysfunction and Pathological Implications
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Front Matter
Pages 203-203
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- Francisca Cornejo, Rommy von Bernhardi
Pages 205-226
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- Silvia Olivera-Bravo, Eugenia Isasi, Anabel Fernández, Gabriela Casanova, Juan Carlos Rosillo, Luigi Barbeito
Pages 227-243
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- Anna Carolina Carvalho da Fonseca, Rackele Amaral, Celina Garcia, Luiz Henrique Geraldo, Diana Matias, Flavia Regina Souza Lima
Pages 245-261
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- Verónica Murta, Carina Ferrari
Pages 263-285
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- Adrián Sandoval-Hernández, MarÃa José Contreras, Jenny Jaramillo, Gonzalo Arboleda
Pages 287-310
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- H. C. Hoyos, Mariel Marder, R. Ulrich, V. Gudi, M. Stangel, G. A. Rabinovich et al.
Pages 311-332
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- Penha Cristina Barradas, Tiago Savignon, Alex C. Manhães, Frank Tenório, Alan P. da Costa, Marta C. Cunha-Rodrigues et al.
Pages 333-345
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Back Matter
Pages 347-348
About this book
A timely overview covering the three major types of glial cells in the central nervous system - astrocytes, microglia, and oligodendrocytes. New findings on glia biology are overturning a century of conventional thinking about how the brain operates and are expanding our knowledge about information processing in the brain. The book will present recent research findings on the role of glial cells in both healthy function and disease. It will comprehensively cover a broad spectrum of topics while remaining compact in size.
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Medicine Professor of Neurology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Rommy von Bernhardi
About the editor
Rommy von Bernhardi is professor of Neurology at the School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile) and head of the Neuroscience lab. She obtained her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Universität Basel (Basel, Switzerland). Her research areas of interest concern: the biological mechanisms of clinical diseases of the CNS--particularly Alzheimer's disease and neurodegenerative pathology; as well as the functional and disease-related role of glial cells in the inflammation of the nervous system. She is coauthor and coeditor of over 80 scientific publications. Dr. Von Bernhardi is also a member of several distinguished societies such as the Society for Neuroscience and the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO); she was president of the Sociedad Chilena Neurociencia and is currently head of FALAN (Federación Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Neurociencia).
