Neurotrophic Factors

This volume is dedicated to a comprehensive state of the art of surgical techniques, tissue-engineered nerve graft scaffolds, and their application in nerve regeneration; the advances in peripheral nerve repair and future perspectives discussed, including surgeons' and researchers' own large experience in this field of knowledge.

How tumors interact with the nervous system and what impact this might have for the progression and Targeted primarily at investigators in experimental and clinical oncology, this book is also of special interest to neurobiologists as well as developmental and cell biologists ee of plasticity.

Development of the brain and the emergence of the mind constitute some of the most important concerns of contemporary biology. Disturbances during fetal life may have profound implications for a child's future neurological and psychological development, which can in turn impact society.