Selective Neuronal Death

Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, and motor neuron disease share a significant common feature: selective death of neurons in restricted regions of the brain. This international symposium, held by the Ciba Foundation in 1986, is the first to bring together neurophysiologists working on neuronal death and neuropathologists dealing with human degenerative brain disease. Participants describe the causes and sequence of events leading to neuronal death and discuss what can be done to prevent it. Among the topics covered are recent advances in the understanding of agents such as trophic factors, excitotoxins and poisons that are known to be involved in neuronal death; examples of neuronal death during normal development; and the role played by endocrine mechanisms and neuronal activity. Also considers trophic factors controlling the survival of neuronal transplants and the therapeutic prospects for tissue transplantation.

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The Novartis Foundation is an international scientific and educational charity which promotes the study and general knowledge of science and in particular encourages international co-operation in scientific research.

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Partial table of contents:

Nerve Cell Death in Degenerative Diseases of the Central Nervous
System: Clinical Aspects (Y. Agid & J. Blin).

Dysfunction and Death of Neurons in Human Degenerative
Neurological Diseases and in Animal Models (D. L. Price, et
al.).

Neuronal Origin of Cerebral Amyloidogenic Proteins: Their Role
in Alzheimer's Disease and Unconventional Virus Diseases of the
Nervous System (C. L. Masters & K. Beyreuther).

Mechanism for Programmed Cell Death in the Nervous System of a
Moth (S.E.

Fahrbach & J. W.

Truman).

Neurotrophic Factors and Neuronal Death (H. Thoenen, et
al.).

Muscle Activity and Motor Neuron Death in the Spinal Cord of the
Chick Embryo (R. W. Oppenheim).

Remodelling of Early Axonal Projections Through the Selective
Elimination of Neurons and Long Axon Collaterals (D. D. M.

O'Leary).