Cell Adhesion Molecules (eBook)

Introduction.- Part I: Cell adhesion Molecules Belonging to the Immunoglobulin Superfamily.- Thy-1 modulates neurological cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions through multiple molecular interactions.- The IgCAMs CAR, BT-IgSF and CLMP: structure, function and diseases.- GLIALCAM, a glial cell adhesion molecule implicated in neurological disease.- The neuroplastins: multifunctional neuronal adhesion molecules; involvement in behaviour and disease.- Roles of nectins and nectin-like molecules in the nervous system.- ICAM-5 - a neuronal dendritic adhesion molecule involved in immune and neuronal functions.- ROUNDABOUT receptors.- New insights into the roles of the contactin cell adhesion molecules in neural development.- The L1 Family of Cell Adhesion Molecules – A Sickening Number of Mutations and Protein Functions.- Organisation and control of neuronal connectivity and myelination by cell adhesion molecule neurofascin.- Roles for DSCAM and DSCAML1 in central nervous system development and disease.- Part II: Cell adhesion Molecules not Belonging to the Immunoglobulin Superfamily.- The adhesion molecule Anosmin-1 in Neurology: Kallmann syndrome and beyond.- Protocadherins in Neurological Diseases.- Neural cell adhesion molecules belonging to the family of leucine-rich repeat proteins.- Index.