Heat shock proteins: expression and functional roles in nerve cells and glia -- Small heat shock proteins and the cytoskeleton: their role in inclusion body formation in glial cells / Christiane Richter-Landsberg and Olaf Goldbaum -- The role of HSPs in neuronal differentiation and development / Kate Reed Herbert, Afshin Samali and Adrienne Gorman -- Possible roles of HSPs in neuronal differentiation and development of the nervous system -- Heme oxygenase as a therapeutic funnel in nutritional redox homeostasis and cellular stress response: role of acetylcarnitine / Vittorio Calabrese [and others] -- Heat shock proteins and the regulation of apoptosis / Una FitzGerald, Adrienne M. Gorman and Afshin Samali -- Assembly of protein aggregates in neurodegeneration: mechanisms linking the ubiquitin/proteasome pathway and chaperones / Sha-Ron Pierre [and others] -- The role of heat shock proteins during neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease / Andreas Wyttenbach and Andre Patrick Arrigo -- Heat shock proteins in multiple sclerosis / Celia F. Brosnan, Luca Battistini and Krzysztof Selmaj
Summary
Heat shock proteins are involved in many physiological processes, including development and differentiation, organisation of the cytoarchitecture by binding to cytoskeletal elements, and regulation of the balance between cell death and survival. This book addresses the role of heat shock proteins and cellular stress responses in the brain