Companion vol. to: Multiple sclerosis: diagnosis, medical management, and rehabilitation / edited by Jack S. Burks and Kenneth P. Johnson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Developments in multiple sclerosis research / Robert M. Herndon -- Morphology of oligodendrocytes and myelin / Robert Skoff -- Astroctes: morphology and function / Robert M. Herndon -- Molecular structure of the myelin membrane / Joyce A. Benjamins -- The nature of immunologic privilege in the central nervous system / Zsuzsa Fabry, Matyas Sandor, Diane Sewell, and Emily Reinke -- Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis / LaChelle R. Arredondo, Amy Lovett-Racke, and Michael K. Racke -- Tissue culture studies of demyelination and remyelination / Frederick J. Seil -- Infectious agents and demyelination / John Rose -- Viral demyelinating diseases in experimental animals / Jane E. Libbey and Robert S. Fujinami -- Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and its association with multiple sclerosis / Harold Moses Jr. and Sabramaniam Sriram -- The role of cytokines in multiple sclerosis and experimental allergic encephalomyelitis / Tanuja Chitnis and Samia J. Khoury -- Chemokines and their receptors in multiple sclerosis / Richard M. Ransohoff and William J. Karpus -- Interferons in multiple sclerosis / Suhayl Dhib-Jalbut -- The pathology of multiple sclerosis as revealed by in vivo magnetic resonance-based approaches / Jack H. Simon -- Mechanisms of repair, adaptation, and recovery of function in multiple sclerosis / Robert M. Herndon.