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Main Title Cell Communication in Nervous and Immune System [electronic resource] /
Type EBOOK
Author Gundelfinger, Eckart D.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Seidenbecher, Constanze I.
Schraven, Burkhart.
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
Year Published 2006
Call Number QP351-495
ISBN 9783540368298
Subjects Life sciences ; Immunology ; Cytology ; Neurobiology
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11372318
Collation XIV, 313 p. online resource.
Notes
Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes
Molecular Organization and Assembly of the Postsynaptic Density of Excitatory Brain Synapses -- Molecular Organization and Assembly of the Central Inhibitory Postsynapse -- Molecular Organization and Assembly of the Presynaptic Active Zone of Neurotransmitter Release -- Extracellular Matrix and Synaptic Functions -- Electrical Synapses - Gap Junctions in the Brain -- Neuron-Glia Interactions at the Node of Ranvier -- Cognate Interaction Between Endothelial Cells and T Cells -- Impact of the Immunological Synapse on T Cell Signaling -- The Biophysics of T Lymphocyte Activation In Vitro and In Vivo -- Molecular Regulation of Cytoskeletal Rearrangements During T Cell Signalling -- Membrane-Proximal Signaling Events in Beta-2 Integrin Activation -- Regulation of Immune Cell Entry into the Central Nervous System -- Cell-cell communication by Endocannabinoids during Immune Surveillance of the Central Nervous System. At first glance, the nervous and immune systems appear very different. However, both systems have developed mechanisms for memory formation - though of quite different quality and significance for the organism. One striking example is that both systems form and communicate via synapses armed with similar sets of proteins. This collection of reviews, contributed by internationally recognized immunologists and molecular and cellular neurobiologists, puts side by side cellular communication devices and signaling mechanisms in the immune and nervous systems and discusses mechanisms of interaction between the two systems, the significance of which has only recently been fully appreciated.