Part 1: Mechanisms of Brain Defense and Neuropathogenesis
Chapter 1: The Blood Brain Barrier
Victor Castro, Michal Toborek
Chapter 2: Immune Cell Trafficking in the Central Nervous System
Beena John, Christopher A. Hunter, Tajie H. Harris
Chapter 3: General Physiology and Pathophysiology of Microglia
Alexei Verkhratsky, Mami Noda
Chapter 4: Inflammation and the Pathophysiology of Astrocytes in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Gordon P. Meares, Etty N. Benveniste
Chapter 5: Oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, and neurodegeneration
Hui-Ming Gao, Hui Zhou, Jau-Shyong Hong
Chapter 6: Peripheral Neuroimmune Interactions and Neuropathic Pain
Halina Machelska
Part 2: Neurological Diseases and Inflammation
Chapter 7: Innate and Adaptive Immune-Mediated Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration in Parkinson's Disease
Rebecca A. Wilshusen, R. Lee Mosley
Chapter 8: Multiple sclerosis: impact on functioning of the blood-brain barrier
Mark R. Mizee, Gijs Kooij, Helga E. de Vries
Chapter 9: Neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease
Veronika M. Reinisch, Daniela L. Krause, Norbert Müller
Chapter 10: Neuroinflammation in Huntington's Disease
Roland G. W. Staal, Thomas Möller
Chapter 11: Neuroinflammation and immune regulation in ischemic stroke: identification of new pharmacological targets
Mario Di Napoli, Craig J. Smith, Stephen J. Hopkins, Aurel Popa-Wagner, Ana Maria Buga, Mark Slevic
Part 3: Infectious Diseases
Chapter 12: HIV/NeuroAIDS
Kelly Stauch, Howard S. Fox
Chapter 13: Herpes Simplex Virus Infections Of The Central Nervous System
Richard J. Whitley
Chapter 14: Congenital Cytomegalovirus Disease
Mark R. Schleiss
Chapter 15: Japanese Encephalitis: A Tale of Inflammation and Degeneration in the Central Nervous System
Kallol Dutta, Anirban Basu
Chapter 16: The biology and clinical consequence of infection with the human polyomavirus JCV
G. von Geldern, M. J. Barhams, E.O. Major
Chapter 17: Role of Retrovirus-Induced Transactivator Proteins in Neuroinflammatory Disease
Gregory Antell, Michael R. Nonnemacher, Vanessa Pirrone, Brian Wigdahl
Chapter 18: Immunopathogenesis of bacterial meningitis
Uwe Koedel, Matthias Klein, Hans-Walter Pfister
Chapter 19: Cerebral Malaria
Gregory S. Park, Chandy C. John
Part 4: Drugs of Abuse and NeuroAIDS
Chapter 20: HIV and Cocaine Interplay in HIV-associated Neurocognitive Disorders
Honghong Yao, Crstal Bethel-Brown, Shilpa Buch
Chapter 21: Methamphetamine Neurotoxicity and Neuroinflammatory Processes
Nicole A. Northrop, Bryan K. Yamamoto
Chapter 22: Drugs of Abuse and NeuroAIDS: Opiates
Thomas J. Rogers
Chapter 23: Cannabinoids
Paige S. Katz, Patricia E. Molina
Chapter 24: Alcohol and Neurodegeneration
Yuri Persidsky, Larisa Goffman, Raghava Potula
Part 5: Novel Approaches to Therapy
Chapter 25: Cell-Based Drug Delivery for Improving Antiretroviral Therapeutic Outcomes
JoEllyn M. McMillan, Howard E. Gendelman
Chapter 26: Immunomodulatory Therapeutics for Neurodegenerative Diseases
David J. Graber, William F. Hickey
Chapter 27: Therapeutic Potential Of Cannabinoids
Guy A. Cabral, Melissa Jamerson