Comparative molecular neurobiology /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pichon, Y. (Yves), 1938-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser Verlag, [1993]
Series:EXS ; 63.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Old concepts and new approaches
  • Major lines of metazoan evolution: summary of traditional evidence and lessons from ribosomal RNA sequence analysis / A. Adoutte and H. Philippe
  • Heterologous expression of the membrane proteins that control cellular excitability / A. Karschin
  • Ligand-gated ion channels
  • Molluscan ligand-gated ion-channel receptors / M.G. Darlison, M.L. Hutton and R.J. Harvey
  • Acetylcholine receptor molecules of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans / J.T. Fleming ... [et al.]
  • Acetylcholine receptor/channel molecules of insects / C.A. Leech and D.B. Sattelle
  • Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in invertebrates: comparisons with homologous receptors from vertebrates / F. Hannan and L.M. Hall
  • Pharmacology of the GABA receptor of insect central neurons in culture: a patch-clamp study / A. Taylor, I. Bermudez and D.J. Beadle
  • GABA receptor molecules of insects / N.M. Anthony, J.B. Harrison and D.B. Sattelle.
  • (cont) Cloning of a putative GABAa receptor from cyclodiene-resistant Drosophila: a case study in the use of insecticide-resistant mutants to isolate neuroreceptors / R.H. ffrench-Constant
  • Molecular biology of excitatory amino acid receptors: subtypes and subunits / P. Bochet and J. Rossier
  • Molecular analysis of Drosophila glutamate receptors / C.M. Schuster ... [et al.]
  • Channels formed by M2 peptides of a putative glutamate receptor subunit of locust / P.N.R. Usherwood ... [et al.]
  • Single channel properties at the synaptic site / H.P.C. Robinson and N. Kawai
  • Second messenger-linked receptors
  • Structural and functional conservation of serotonin receptors throughout evolution / R. Hen
  • Wide range of actions of the FMRFamide-related peptides and the biological importance of peptidergic messengers / G.A. Cottrell
  • Molecular studies on insect octopamine receptors / P.D. Evans
  • Bioamine receptors: evolutionary and functional variations of a structural leitmotiv / P. Vernier ... [et al.]
  • Voltage-gated ion channels
  • Molecular basis of K⁺ channel inactivation gating / E.Y. Isacoff, Y.N. Jan and L.Y. Jan.
  • (cont) Potassium conductance and potassium channels in a primitive insect: the cockroach Periplaneta americana / M. Amar and Y. Pichon
  • Ionic channels in cultured Drosophila neurons / M. Saito and C.F. Wu
  • Receptor diversity and integrative properties of the neurons
  • Electrophysiological pharmacology of neurotransmitter receptors on locust neuronal somata / J.A. Benson
  • Modulation of insect neurone properties / R.M. Pitman, J.A. David and J.C. Hancox.