From Messengers to Molecules: Memories Are Made of These
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Gernot Riedel
This book is co-published with Springer.
Please click here to purchase this book at the Springer site. ISBN: 978-0-306-47862-8 Pub date: 2004-11-08 640 pages 121 figures 2 color pages |
Table of contentsI. Ions and Ion Channels 1.1 Calcium 1.2 Potassium II. Principle Neurotransmitters 2.1 Glutamate 2.2 gamma-amino-butyric acid (GABA) 2.3 Acetylcholine: I. Muscarinic receptors 2.4 Acetylcholine: II. Nicotinic receptors 2.5 Serotonin 2.6 Dopamine 2.7 Adrenaline and noradrenaline 2.8 Histamine 2.9 Adenosine and purines III. Neuromodulators 3.1 Cannabinoids 3.2 Opioids 3.3 Neuropeptides 3.4 Nerve growth factors and neurotrophins 3.5 Eph receptors and ephrin ligands 3.6 Corticosteroids IV. Second Messengers and Enzymes 4.1 Adenylyl cyclases 4.2 Phospholipases and oxidases 4.3 Protein Kinase A 4.4 Protein kinase C 4.5 CaMKII 4.6 MAP Kinases 4.7 Phosphatases 4.8 Nitric Oxide V. Transcription factors, genes and proteins 5.1 KREB 5.2 Immediate Early Genes 5.3 Protein synthesis: I. Pharmacology 5.4 Protein synthesis: II. New proteins VI. Morphological changes in synapses and neurones 6.1 Synaptogenesis and structural remodeling 6.2 Cell Adhesion Molecules VII. Learning about Memory by Studying Brain Dysfunction 7.1 Animal and human amnesia: the cholinergic hypothesis revisited 7.2 7.2. Aging and the calcium homeostasis |
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