Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Neural Lipids

ISBN-13: 9780387303451 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 758 str.

Lajtha, Abel

Opis

Contents include: 'Biochemistry and molecular biology of neural lipids', 'Advances in lipid analysis/lipidomics', 'Metabolism and enzymology of glycerolipids', 'Lipid metabolism in brain development and aging', 'Cellular and subcellular localization of neural lipids', and much more.

Spis treści

Biochemistry and molecular biology of neural lipids: General Aspects.- Advances in lipid analysis/lipidomics.- Metabolism and enzymology of Glycerolipids.- Metabolism and enzymology of Sphingolipids.- Metabolism and enzymology of Cholesterol and steroids.- In vivo metabolic studies.- Lipid metabolism in brain development and aging.- Cellular and Subcellular localization of neural lipids.- Nuclear lipids and their signaling functions.- Mitochondrial lipids.- Synaptic Junctions.- Lipid rafts.- Myelin.- Growth Cones.- Functions of Neural Lipids.- Lipid mediators:general aspects.- Choline and ethanolamine phosphoglycerides.- Phosophoinositides.- Sphingoinds/Sphingomyelin.- The endocannabinoids system and its manifold central action.- Lipid mediators and modulators of neural functions.- Phosphoinostides.- Lysophosphatidate and lysolipids.- polyunsaturated fatty acids and bioactive derivatives.- Platelet-activating factor.- Anandamide and acylethanolamides.- 2 arachidonylglycerol.- Sphingoids.- Sulfatides.- Gangliosides.- Steroids.- Protein lipid anchors.- Diet, brain lipids and brain functions.- Polyunsaturated fatty acids.- Choline.- Alcohol.- Neural lipids in dysfunctions and diseases.- Phospholipase A2 and neurodegeneration.- Oxidative stress and lipid peroxydation.- Anoxia, ischemia and reperfusion.- Lipids in Altzheimers disease brain.- Parkinsons disease.- Multiple sclerosis.- ALS.- Peroxisomal disorders.- Sphingolipid-inherited diseases of the CNS.- Tumors.- knock out animal models.