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From messengers to molecules : memories are made of these /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Riedel, Gernot, Platt, Bettina
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Georgetown, T.X. : New York, N.Y. : Landes Bioscience/Eurekah.com ; Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2004]
Series:Neuroscience intelligence unit (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Memory > physiology.
Ion Channels.
Learning > physiology.
Memory Disorders.
Neurotransmitter Agents.
Transcription Factors.
Table of Contents:
  • Sec. 1. Ions and channels
  • Calcium
  • Potassium
  • Sec. 2. Principle neurotransmitters
  • Glutamate receptors
  • Gamma-amino-butyric acid (GABA)
  • Acetylcholine : I. muscarinic receptors
  • Acetylcholine : II. nicotinic receptors
  • Serotonin
  • Dopamine
  • Adrenaline and noradrenaline
  • - Histamine
  • Adenosine and purines
  • Sec. 3. Neuromodulators
  • Opioids
  • Neuropeptides
  • Nerve growth factors and neurotrophins
  • Eph receptors and their ephrin ligands in neural plasticity
  • Corticosteroids
  • Sec. 4. Second messengers and enzymes
  • Adenyl cyclases
  • Phospholipases and oxidases
  • Protein kinase A
  • Protein kinase C
  • CaMKinase II
  • MAP kinases
  • Phosphatases
  • Nitric oxide
  • Sec. 5. Transcription factors, genes and proteins
  • CREB
  • Immediate-early genes
  • Protein synthesis : I. pharmacology
  • Protein synthesis : II. New proteins
  • Sec. 6. Morphological changes in synapses and neurones
  • Learning-induced synaptogenesis and structural synaptic remodeling
  • Cell adhesion molecules
  • Sec. 7. Learning about memory by studying brain dysfunction
  • Animal and human amnesia : the cholinergic hypothesis revisited
  • Aging and the calcium homeostasis