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Excitatory amino acids and the cerebral cortex /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Conti, Fiorenzo, Hicks, T. Philip
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1996]
Subjects:
Excitatory Amino Acids.
Cerebral Cortex.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: why excitatory amino acids and the cerebral cortex?
  • Cerebral cortex, excitatory amino acids, and their receptors
  • The anatomy of the cerebral cortex: aspects of neuronal morphology and organization
  • Diverse neuronal functions of the cerebral cortex
  • Calcium channels and the regulation of glutamate exocytosis
  • Glutamate receptor subunit composition in principal neurons and interneurons of the central nervous system
  • Physiology of AMPA receptors: biophysical characteristics that subserve integrative roles of synapses.
  • Metabotropic glutamate receptors and cerebral cortex
  • Anatomy and physiology of excitatory amino acids in the cerebral cortex: 1. form and functional (organizational) aspects
  • The anatomy of glutamatergic transmission in cerebral cortex
  • Physiology of glutamatergic transmission in the cerebral cortex
  • Excitatory amino acids in thalamocortical transmission
  • Mechanisms of dynamic afferent information processing in sensory neocortex
  • Excitatory amino acids in corticofugal projections: microscopic evidence.
  • Physiological studies of the role of excitatory amino acids and their receptors in corticofugal projects
  • Muscarinic modulation of excitatory synaptic responses in cortical neurons
  • Anatomy and physiology of excitatory amino acids in the cerebral cortex: II. molecular, cellular, and developmental (signaling) aspects
  • Ionotropic glutamate receptors in vertebrate glial cells
  • Astrocyte-neuron signaling
  • Nitric oxide
  • Synthesizing neurons in the cerebral cortex: anatomy and functional implications.
  • The effects of nitric oxide on cortical function
  • The role of excitatory amino acids in cortical development
  • Functional expression of nmda receptors in developing neurons
  • Excitatory amino acids, plasticity, and learning and memory
  • The role of excitatory amino acid receptors in developmental plasticity of sensory neocortex
  • NMDA-type glutamate receptors and use-dependent plasticity in barrel field cortex
  • Long-term potentiation in the adult and immature visual cortex.
  • A role of postsyaptic calcium in induction of long-term potentiation and depression in rat visual cortex
  • NMDA receptors, synaptic plasticity, and learning and memory
  • Excitatory amino acids and diseases involving the cerebral cortex
  • The role of excitatory amino acids in cerebrocortical ischemic, hypoglycemic, and traumatic damage
  • Changes in excitatory and inhibitory synaptic circuits in the human epileptogenic neocortex
  • Excitatory amino acids and use-dependent plasticity: epileptogenesis.
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: failure of glutamate transport
  • Excitatory amino acids and Alzheimer's disease
  • HIV-related neuronal injury: potential therapy with NMDA open-channel blockers and redox congeners of nitric oxide
  • The role of glutamate in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.