Neurotoxlns represent unique chemical tools, providing a means to 1) gain insight into
cellular mechanisms of apopotosis and necrosis, 2) achieve a morphological template for …

This handbook is a reference source for identifying, characterizing, instructing on use, and
describing outcomes of neurotoxin treatments–to understand mechanisms associated with …

It is a great pleasure to write the foreword to this important volume for several reasons. First:
As far as we know, already primitive societies had to cope with environmental toxins of many …

Neurotoxins, in the general sense, represent novel chemical structures which when
administered in vivo or in vitro, are capable of producing neuronal damage or …

As discussed elsewhere (Przedborski et al., 2003), the term “neurodegenerative disease”
refers to a group of neurological disorders with heterogeneous clinical and pathological …

Responsible for our thoughts and actions, the nervous system, more than any other organ
system in the body, defines us as individuals. Although well protected from the environment …

Organisms such as snakes, spiders, insects, snails and scorpions produce toxins in their
venoms that act by a wide variety of mechanisms to immobilize or kill their prey. The same …

Following the overwhelmingly successful response to the first printing in hardcover, the
hottest topics in Selective Neurotoxicity are now available in this special softcover edition" …

For the past few decades, neuroimmunology research has delineated pathways and
mechanisms on the reciprocal interactions that exist between the nervous and immune …

Toxins are produced by thousands of living species for increasing their chance of survival by
modifying the physiology of other species. They are used either for defense or predation …