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Humana Press Molecular Neurosurgery with Targeted Toxins 1st Editon 2010 Softbound by Ronald G. Wiley, Douglas A. Lappi
Pioneers and leading researchers explain the theory and techniques of using targeted toxins experimentally. The highly successful use of the 192 IgG-saporin and ME20.4-saporin immunotoxins to lesion the cholinergic basal forebrain in order to model the behavior, anatomy, physiology, and pharmacology of Alzheimer's disease in animals is treated in detail to give a potential user the knowledge to comfortably use the techniques involved. The uses of important new lesioning agents such as anti-DBH-saporin immunotoxin to make remarkably selective lesions of catecholaminergic neurons, hypocretin-saporin that can produce narcoleptic animals, and other saporin conjugates, such as neuropeptide-saporin conjugates for pain research and cholera toxin B chain-saporin to produce a model of CNS demyelination are explained by experts in the field. to Molecular Neurosurgery.- Ribosome-Inactivating Proteins.- Biochemical, Physiological, and Behavioral Characterizations of the Cholinergic Basal Forebrain Lesion Produced by 192 IgG-Saporin.- Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Lesion by 192 IgG-Saporin.- 192 IgG-Saporin-Induced Partial Cortical Cholinergic Deafferentation as a Model for Determining the Interactions Between Brain Aging and Neurodevelopmental Defects in the Cortical Cholinergic Input System.- Exploring the Role of Acetylcholine in Primate Cognition Using Me20.4 IgG-Saporin.- Cortical Cholinergic Deafferentation Induces A? Deposition.- Chemical Dissection of Brain Glucoregulatory Circuitry.- Cardiovascular Deficits After Lesions of C1 Adrenergic Neurons With a Saporin-Based Immunotoxin.- Saporin Conjugates and Pain.- The Use of Saporin Conjugates to Dissect Neurons Responsible for Sleep and Wakefulness.- Isolectin IB4-Mediated Cytotoxic Targeting of Sensory Neurons.- B Fragment of Cholera Toxin Conjugated to Saporin.