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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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint : Springer,
2002.
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| Series: | Handbook of experimental pharmacology ;
154 / 1. |
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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.