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The biology of Schwann cells : development, differentiation, and immunomodulation / edited by Patricia Armati - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 - xii, 249 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Introduction to the Schwann cell / Emily Mathey and Patricia J. Armati -- Early events in Schwann cell development / Rhona Mirsky and Kristjan R. Jessen -- The molecular organization of myelinating Schwann cells / Edgardo J. Arroyo and Steven S. Scherer -- The role of the extracellular matrix in Schwann cell development and myelination / Maria Laura Feltri and Lawrence Wrabetz -- The biology of perisynaptic (terminal) Schwann cells / Chien-Ping Ko, Yoshie Sugiura, and Zhihua Feng -- Cytokine and chemokine interactions with Schwann cells : the neuroimmunology of Schwann cells / Robert P. Lisak and Joyce A. Benjamins -- Schwann cells as immunomodulatory cells / Bernd C. Kieseier, Wei Hu, and Hans-Peter Hartung -- Mutations in Schwann cell genes causing inherited neuropathies / Michael E. Shy, John Kamholz, and Jun Li -- Guillain-Barre syndrome and the Schwann cell / Richard A.C. Hughes -- Chronic idiopathic demyelinating polyneuropathy and Schwann cells / John D. Pollard

ISBN: 9780521850209 (hardback) 0521850207 (hardback) RM434.85

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Schwann Cells--physiology

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WL102 / .B616 2007