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Part of the book series: Molecular & Cellular Biology of Critical Care Medicine (MCCM, volume 2)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This text covers acute brain injury within a context relevant to the care of patients with critical neurologic injuries such as cardiac arrest, trauma and stroke. It includes recent data pertaining to established pathways such as neurotransmission, exitotoxicity, ionic-mechanisms, oxidative stress, inflammation, and cerebral vascular injury. In addition, rapidly developing areas such as cell signaling, adenosine pharmacology, apoptosis, mitochondrial dysfunction, neurocytoskeletal changes, and the role of trophic factors are reviewed from the level of in vitro modeling to human data. Other topics covered that are highly clinically relevant include the effect of genetic background and gender differences in outcome after brain injury, preconditioning, and the effects of currently used anesthetics and sedative agents in patients with brain injury.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Brain Injury
Editors: Robert S. B. Clark, Patrick Kochanek
Series Title: Molecular & Cellular Biology of Critical Care Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1721-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7532-6Published: 31 October 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-5695-0Published: 05 November 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-1721-4Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 384
Topics: Neurology, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Neurosurgery, Anesthesiology