Download or read book Protective and Pathological Immune Responses in the CNS written by B. Dietzschold and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of the protection of the CNS there are situations where immune responses occur due to different disease processes. While antigen-specific cells of the adaptive immune response are not normally functional in the CNS tissue, CNS resident cells respond to infection or insult. One mechanisms is through the induction of apoptosis in virus infected neurons, which may be protective or pathogenic depending on the extent of cell death.