1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451042903321

Titolo

Molecular biology of Alzheimer's disease : genes and mechanisms involved in amyloid generation / / edited by Christian Haass

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Australia : , : Harwood Academic Publishers, an imprint of Overseas Publishers Association, , 1998

ISBN

0-429-07779-3

1-4822-8345-X

1-280-05339-9

9786610053391

0-203-30361-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HaassChristian

Disciplina

616.831

Soggetti

Alzheimer's disease - Genetic aspects

Alzheimer's disease - Molecular aspects

Amyloid beta-protein precursor

Molecular neurobiology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Amyloid Morphology and Pathology of Alzheimer's Disease; The Tau Proteins in Alzheimer's Disease; Mutations in Three Genes are Associated with Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease; The Biological Activities and Function of the Amyloid Precursor Protein  of Alzheimer's Disease; Proteolytic Processing of the -Amyloid Precursor Protein; Biosynthesis of APP and A: Multiple Pathways for the Generation of  Intracellular A; The Cell Biology of Amyloid Precursor Protein

The Role of Amyloid -Peptide Terminating at Amino Acid 42 in Early  Onset Alzheimer's DiseaseThe Biophysics of Amyloid -Protein Fibrillogenesis; The Molecular Biology of Presenilin 1; Molecular Biology of Presenilin 2; Presenilin Proteins and their Role in Development and Notch Signaling; The Processing of the Amyloid-Precursor-Protein (APP) in Presenilin-1  Deficient Neurons; Presenilins and their Role in



Apoptosis; The Phosphorylation of Presenilin Proteins; APOE and its Role in Late Onset Alzheimer's Disease

Transgenic Animal Models in the Development of Therapeutic Strategies  for Alzheimer's DiseasePresenilins in Transgenic Mice; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Highlighting the latest and the most timely aspects of Alzheimer's disease research, this text will enable scientists in related research fields, as well as physicians working with Alzheimer's disease patients, to obtain a quick and complete overview of the current state of the art in one of the most exciting fields in neuroscience research. Leading scientists have contributed articles focusing on key developments in this field. This includes an overview about the pathology, the genetics of familial Alzheimer's disease, proteolytic generation and aggregation of amyloid -peptide, presenilins, r

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910791753403321

Titolo

Intimate labors [[electronic resource] ] : cultures, technologies, and the politics of care / / edited by Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford Social Sciences, 2010

ISBN

0-8047-7727-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BorisEileen <1948->

ParreñasRhacel Salazar

Disciplina

306.3/6082

Soggetti

Women - Employment - Social aspects

Intimacy (Psychology) - Economic aspects

Interpersonal relations and culture

Women employees - Labor unions

Sex industry

Work - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Technologies of caring labor : from objects to affect / Ariel Ducey -- The transmission of care : affective economies and Indian call centers /



Kalindi Vora -- Foreign and domestic : adoption, immigration, and privatization / Laura Briggs -- Selling genes, selling gender : egg agencies, sperm banks, and the medical market in genetic material / Rene Almeling -- Gender labor : transmen, femmes, and collective work of transgression / Jane Ward -- Traveling cultures of servitude : loyalty and betrayal in New York and Kolkata / Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray -- My reward is not money : deep alliances and the end of life care among Mexicana workers and their wards / Maria de la Luz Ibarra -- Cultures of flirtation : sex and the moral boundaries of Filipina migrant hostesses in Tokyo / Rhacel Parreñas -- Bounded authenticity and the commerce of sex / Elizabeth Bernstein -- Economies of emotion, familiarity, fantasy, and desire : emotional labor in Ho Chi Minh City's sex industry / Kimberly Kay Hoang -- Making home care : law and social policy in the U.S. welfare state / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- Power, intimacy, and contestation : Dorothy Bolden and domestic worker organizing in Atlanta in the 1960s / Premilla Nadasen -- Manicuring intimacies : inequality and resistance in nail salon work / Millian Kang -- But who will care for the children? : organizing child care providers in the wake of welfare reform / Ellen Reese -- Sex and (evacuation from) the city : the moral and legal regulation of sex workers in Vancouver's West End, 1975-1985 / Becki Ross -- Caring everywhere / Viviana Zelizer -- More intimate unions / Dorothy Sue Cobble.

Sommario/riassunto

This book advances debates over the relationship between care and economy through the concept of intimate labor-care, domestic, and sex work-and thus charts relations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship in the context of global economic transformations.