Cell Death and Diseases of the Nervous System
R. BARKER · Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry · 2000
Cell Death and Diseases of the Nervous System . Edited by v e koliastsos and r r ratan (Pp683, $145.00). Published By The Humana Press, New Jersey, 1999. ISBN 0-89603-413-5. This book undertakes an extensive review of the fast moving field of cell death, an area of neurobiology that is currently the centre of intensive investigation both at the level of mechanisms and disease pathogenesis. The book divides into four sections that move from cellular and molecular mechanisms to animal models and human disease with possible therapeutic interventions bringing up the rear. It is thus a book that will interest both neuroscientists and neurologists …