Brain development : normal processes and the effects of alcohol and nicotine / edited by Michael W. Miller.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Models of neurotoxicity provide unique insight into normal development
- Cell proliferation
- Neuronal migration
- Neuronal differentiation : from axons to synapses
- Cell death
- Intracellular pathways of neuronal death
- Developmental disorders and evolutionary expectations : mechanisms of resilience
- Prenatal alcohol exposure and human development
- Influence of alcohol on the structure of the developing human brain
- Prenatal ethanol exposure and fetal programming : implications for endocrine and immune development and long-term health
- Early exposure to ethanol affects the proliferation of neuronal precursors
- Effects of ethanol on the regulation of cell cycle in neural stem cells
- Mechanisms of ethanol-induced alterations in neuronal migration
- Effects of ethanol on mechanisms regulating neuronal process outgrowth
- Neuronal survival is compromised by ethanol: extracellular mediators
- Intracellular events in ethanol-induced neuronal death
- Neural crest and developmental exposure to ethanol
- Glial targets of developmental exposure to ethanol
- Tobacco use during pregnancy : epidemiology and effects on offspring
- Prenatal nicotine exposure and animal behavior
- Neuronal receptors for nicotine : functional diversity and developmental changes
- Neural precursors as preferential targets for drug abuse : long term consequences and latent susceptibility to central nervous system disorders
- Nicotinic receptor regulation of developing catecholamine systems