Format:
Online-Ressource (digital)
ISBN:
9783642030192
Series Statement:
Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation 48
Content:
Recent years have witnessed striking advances in research on axons at a cellular level that substantially impact our current understanding of axonal biology. Newer findings and their ramifications are critically reviewed in the 16 chapters of this volume by authors highly qualified by virtue of their scientific contributions to research areas they know and write about. Five basic areas (I to V) germane to axonal biology are highlighted, beginning with (I) signaling interactions mediating myelination, and differentiation of axonal membrane domains, (IIa) issues surrounding organization and transport dynamics of neurofilaments in axons, (IIb) mechanisms regulating microtubule organization and dynamics, misregulation of which causes axonal degeneration, and (IIc) the roles actin binding proteins play in regulating organization and functions of the actin filament system in mature and growing axons, (IIIa) myosin motor proteins and cargoes intrinsic to the axon compartment, (IIIb) mitochondrial transport motors, and imperatives governing transport dynamics and directional delivery, (IIIc) mechanisms mediating retrograde signaling associated with NGF's role in trophic-dependent neuronal survival, and (IIId) potential for impaired subcellular targeting of a -synuclein as a mechanism for accumulation of Lewy body inclusions in synucleinopathies, (IVa) occurrence and organization of discrete ribosome-containing domains in axons, (IVb) endogenous mRNAs, classes of proteins translated locally, and RNP trafficking in axons, (IVc) importance of locally synthesized nuclear encoded mitochondrial proteins for maintenance, function and survival of axons, (IVd) occurrence of RNA trafficking from glial cells to axons, and significance glial RNA transcripts may play in expression in axons and axon terminals, (IVe) RNA trafficking and localization of RNA transcripts in axonal growth cones, and signaling pathways that modulate local protein synthesis for directional elongation, and (IVf) genetic and molecular defects underlying spinal muscular atrophy, and roles that SMN gene product plays as a molecular chaperone in mRNA transport and translation, (Va) injury-induced local synthesis of a protein forming a retrograde signaling complex in axons to stimulate regeneration, and (Vb) endogenous and exogenous factors that condition axonal regenerative capacity in PNS and CNS, including injury-induced activation of specific genes governing regeneration.Emergent complexities revealed in this volume compel a major revision in the traditional conceptual model of the axon's intrinsic makeup and capacities.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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CONTENTS; Myelination and Regional Domain Differentiation of the Axon; Organizational Dynamics, Functions, andPathobiological Dysfunctions of Neurofilaments; Critical Roles for Microtubules in AxonalDevelopment and Disease; Actin in Axons: Stable Scaffolds and Dynamic Filaments; Myosin Motor Proteins in the Cell Biologyof Axons and Other Neuronal Compartments; Mitochondrial Transport Dynamics in Axons and Dendrites; NGF Uptake and Retrograde Signaling Mechanisms inSympathetic Neurons in Compartmented Cultures; The Paradoxical Cell Biology of a-Synuclein
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Organized Ribosome-Containing Structural Domains in AxonsRegulation of mRNA Transport and Translation in Axons; Axonal Protein Synthesis and the Regulationof Local Mitochondrial Function; Protein Synthesis in Nerve Terminalsand the Glia-Neuron Unit; Local Translation and mRNA Trafficking in Axon Pathfinding; Spinal Muscular Atrophy and a Model for Survivalof Motor Neuron Protein Function in AxonalRibonucleoprotein Complexes; Retrograde Injury Signaling in Lesioned Axons; Axon Regeneration in the Peripheraland Central Nervous Systems; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783642030185
Additional Edition:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Cell biology of the axon Heidelberg : Springer, 2009 ISBN 9783642030185
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
Keywords:
Axon
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Cytologie
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Axon
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Cytologie
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-03019-2
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