Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Following Ischemic Stroke and Cardiac Arrest in Humans
(Mirosław Czuczwar, MD, PhD, Second Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland)
Chapter 2. Neuropathophysiological and Neuropathological Alterations Following Ischemia-Reperfusion Brain Injury Resembling the Changes to the Brain in Alzheimer’s Disease
(Ryszard Pluta, MD, PhD, Marzena Ułamek-Kozioł, MD, PhD, Stanisław J. Czuczwar, MD, PhD, Laboratory of Ischemic and Neurodegenerative Brain Research, Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, and others)
Chapter 3. The Ischemic Blood-Brain Barrier Behaves like a Blood-Brain Barrier in Alzheimer’s Disease
(Ryszard Pluta, MD, PhD, Marzena Ułamek-Kozioł, MD, PhD, Stanisław J. Czuczwar, MD, PhD, Laboratory of Ischemic and Neurodegenerative Brain Research, Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, and others)
Chapter 4. Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Proteins Following Ischemia-Reperfusion Brain Injury
(Ryszard Pluta, MD, PhD, Marzena Ułamek-Kozioł, MD, PhD, Stanisław J. Czuczwar, MD, PhD, Laboratory of Ischemic and Neurodegenerative Brain Research, Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, and others)
Chapter 5. Expression of Genes Involved in Amyloidogenic Processing of the Amyloid Protein Precursor in the Hippocampus and Temporal Cortex after Brain Ischemia
(Ryszard Pluta, MD, PhD, Marzena Ułamek-Kozioł, MD, PhD, Stanisław J. Czuczwar, MD, PhD, Laboratory of Ischemic and Neurodegenerative Brain Research, Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, and others)
Chapter 6. Expression of Autophagy, Mitophagy and Apoptosis Genes Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease in the Hippocampus and Temporal Cortex after Brain Ischemia
(Ryszard Pluta, MD, PhD, Marzena Ułamek-Kozioł, MD, PhD, Stanisław J. Czuczwar, MD, PhD, Laboratory of Ischemic and Neurodegenerative Brain Research, Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, and others)
Chapter 7. Ischemic Induction of the Tau Protein Gene Influences the Development of the Alzheimer’s Disease Phenotype in the Hippocampus CA1 Neurons
(Marzena Ułamek-Kozioł, MD, PhD, Stanisław J. Czuczwar, MD, PhD, Ryszard Pluta, MD, PhD, Laboratory of Ischemic and Neurodegenerative Brain Research, Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, and others)
Chapter 8. Ischemic Brain Injury in Hyperhomocysteinemic Conditions and the Development of Alzheimer’s Disease
(Jan Lehotsky, PhD, Maria Kovalska, PhD, Anna Tomascova, Dagmar Kalenska, VMD, Eva Baranovicova, PhD, Peter Kaplan, PhD, Department of Medical Biochemistry and BioMed, Comenius University in Bratislava, Jessenius Medical Faculty in Martin, Martin, Slovakia)
Chapter 9. Dual Role of Autophagy in Ischemia-Reperfusion Brain Injury: Linking Ischemic Autophagy to Alzheimer’s Disease
(Marzena Ułamek-Kozioł, MD, PhD, Stanisław J. Czuczwar, MD, PhD, Ryszard Pluta, MD, PhD, Laboratory of Ischemic and Neurodegenerative Brain Research, Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, and others)
Chapter 10. Dual Role of Mitophagy Following Ischemia-Reperfusion Brain Injury: Ischemic Mitophagy Link to Alzheimer’s Disease
(Marzena Ułamek-Kozioł, MD,PhD, Stanisław J. Czuczwar, MD, PhD, Ryszard Pluta, MD, PhD, Laboratory of Ischemic and Neurodegenerative Brain Research, Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, and others)
Chapter 11. Post-Ischemic Dementia with Alzheimer’s Disease Phenotype Following Ischemic Stroke in Humans and Experimental Ischemic Brain Injury
(Ryszard Pluta, MD, PhD, Marzena Ułamek-Kozioł, MD, PhD, Stanisław J. Czuczwar, MD, PhD, Laboratory of Ischemic and Neurodegenerative Brain Research, Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, and others)
Chapter 12. Shared Genomic and Proteomic Contribution to Brain Ischemia and Alzheimer’s Disease: Ischemic Etiology of Alzheimer’s Disease
(Ryszard Pluta, MD., PhD, Marzena Ułamek-Kozioł, MD, PhD, Stanisław J. Czuczwar, MD, PhD, Laboratory of Ischemic and Neurodegenerative Brain Research, Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, and others)
Chapter 13. Stroke and Alzheimer’s Disease: Common Mechanisms and Therapeutic Approaches
(Lidija Radenovic, PhD, Pavle R. Andjus, PhD, Center for Laser Microscopy, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia)
Index
Keywords: Brain ischemia, Alzheimer’s disease, Amyloid, Secretases, Presenilins, Apolipoproteins, Autophagy, Mitophagy, Apoptosis, Tau protein, Dementia, Neuropathology, Neurodegenerative diseases, Genes, Etiology
Audience: Medical doctors, Neurologists, Neuropathologists, Neuroscientists, Scientists, Primary doctors, PhD students, Medical students, Caregivers of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, Families of patients with Alzheimer’s disease
