Novartis Foundation Symposium 126 – Selective Neuronal Death

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Partial table of contents: Nerve Cell Death in Degenerative Diseases of the Central Nervous System: Clinical Aspects (Y. Agid & J. Blin). Dysfunction and Death of Neurons in Human Degenerative Neurological Diseases and in Animal Models (D. L. Price, et al.). Neuronal Origin of Cerebral Amyloidogenic Proteins: Their Role in Alzheimer's Disease and Unconventional Virus Diseases of the Nervous System (C. L. Masters & K. Beyreuther). Mechanism for Programmed Cell Death in the Nervous System of a Moth (S.E. Fahrbach & J. W. Truman). Neurotrophic Factors and Neuronal Death (H. Thoenen, et al.). Muscle Activity and Motor Neuron Death in the Spinal Cord of the Chick Embryo (R. W. Oppenheim). Remodelling of Early Axonal Projections Through the Selective Elimination of Neurons and Long Axon Collaterals (D. D. M. O'Leary).