The neurology of AIDS [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Howard E. Gendelman ... [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, c2012
• Edizione: 3rd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1156 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.97/9207
• Soggetto topico: AIDS (Disease); Neurology
• Altri autori: GendelmanHoward E. <1954->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: HIV-1 biology and immunology -- Innate and cellular immunity and neurogenesis -- Blood brain barrier and HIV CNS entry -- Cellular and viral neurotoxicity and abused drugs -- Animal models -- Personal perspectives in living with HIV/AIDS -- Clinical and pathologic manifestations of disease -- Pathogenesis of co-morbid conditions -- Diagnostics and biomarkers -- Children and adolescents -- Antiretroviral and adjunctive therapies -- Psychiatry and psychobiology.
• Sommario/riassunto: Neurological complications of progressive HIV-1 infection remain a common cause of morbidity even during widespread use of antiretroviral therapy (ART). Long-term resistance to ART, drug compliance, untoward drug side effects, a myriad of opportunistic infection, depression and other psychiatric disease manifestations, concomitant drug abuse, neuropathies, and an inability to clear viral reservoirs, explain, in large measure, disease progression and immune deterioration. These are associated with a number of psychiatric, muscle, nerve, infectious, as well as cognitive, behavioral, and motor di
• Titolo autorizzato: The neurology of AIDS
• ISBN: 0-19-996519-6; 1-283-42769-9; 9786613427694; 0-19-987555-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781942203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II