Dopamine in the CNS I /

Dopamine was initially regarded as a mere precursor of noradrenaline, but has progressively gained its present status of a common target for major drug classes and a substrate for some basic functions and dysfunctions of the Central Nervous System. The scientific interest has shifted from typically...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chiara, Gaetano
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint : Springer, 2002.
Series:Handbook of experimental pharmacology ; 154 / 1.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Birth of Dopamine (by Arvid Carlsson)
  • 1. Brain Dopamine
  • a Historical Perspective
  • 2. Dopamine Neurons within the Organisation of the Forebrain
  • 3. Synaptology of Dopamine Neurons
  • 4. D1 Dopamine Receptors
  • 5. Function of the Dopamine D2 Receptor: A Knockout Animal Approach
  • 6. Dopamine D3 Receptor, Neuropsychiatric Disorders and their Treatments
  • 7. Dopamine D4 Receptors: Molecular Biology and Pharmacology
  • 8. Signal Transduction of Dopamine D1 Receptors
  • 9. The Dopamine Transporter: Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Genetics
  • 10. Cellular Action of Dopamine
  • 11. Dopamine and Gene Expression.