Cerebral ischemic tolerance : From animal models to clinical relevance / editor : Bernhard Schaller.

Includes bibliogr. references and index.

"Natural" tolerance in hibernators : can we learn from physiological and preconditioning against ischemic or hypoxic brain injury? -- Experimental models of ischemic tolerance in the brain -- Experimental pathophysiological mechanism of ischemic tolerance -- Ischemic tolerance and brain imaging -- Cross tolerance -- Stress proteins and ischemic tolerance -- Clinical aspects of ischemic tolerance in the brain -- The signal transduction pathways induced by adenosine to confer ischemic tolerance -- Therapeutic aspects to the future.