PATRICIA J. ARMATI is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Nerve Research Foundation, Department of Medicine at the University of Sydney, Australia with a long-standing research interest in the biology of Schwann cells

Preface; Dedication; 1. Introduction to the Schwann cell Emily Mathey and Patricia J. Armati; 2. Early events in Schwann cell development Rhona Mirsky and Kristjan R. Jessen; 3. The molecular organization of myelinating Schwann cells Edgardo J. Arroyo and Steven S. Scherer; 4. The role of the extracellular matrix in Schwann cell development and myelination Maria Laura Feltri and Lawrence Wrabetz; 5. The biology of perisynaptic (terminal) Schwann cells Chien-Ping Ko, Yoshie Sugiura and Zhihua Feng; 6. Cytokine and chemokine interactions with Schwann cells: the neuroimmunology of Schwann cells Robert P. Lisak and Joyce A. Benjamins; 7. Schwann cells as immunomodulatory cells Bernd C. Kieseier, Wei Hu, and Hans-Peter Hartung; 8. Mutations in Schwann cell genes causing inherited neuropathies Michael E. Shy, John Kamholz and Jun Li; 9. Guillain-Barré Syndrome and the Schwann cell Richard A. C. Hughes; 10. Chronic idiopathic demyelinating polyneuropathy and Schwann cells John D. Pollard.