Cerebral Signal Transduction From First to Fourth Messengers

Cerebral Signal Transduction From First to Fourth Messengers / edited by Maarten E. A. Reith.

In Cerebral Signal Transduction: From First to Fourth Messengers, Maarten E.A. Reith and a team of leading experts comprehensively review and synthesize the most recent advances in our understanding of the role of cerebral signaling in neuronal and cerebral function. The authors emphasize the functi...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Reith, Maarten E. A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana, 2000.
Edition:1st ed. 2000.
Series:Contemporary Neuroscience
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Neurosciences.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction
  • 1 • From First to Fourth Messengers in the Brain: An Overview
  • II. Memory
  • 2 • Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory
  • 3 • Signal Transduction Pathways in Well-Defined Models of Learning and Memory: Drosophila and Honeybee
  • 4 • Protein Kinase C Signaling in Learning and Memory
  • III. Neurodegeneration and Apoptosis
  • 5 • Neurotransmitter Receptor—G-Protein-Mediated Signal Transduction in Alzheimer’s Disease
  • 6 • The NO Signaling Pathway in the Brain: Neural Injury, Neurological Disorders, and Aggression
  • 7 • Cellular Signaling Pathways in Neuronal Apoptosis: Role in Neurodegeneration and Alzheimer’s Disease
  • 8 • The Role of Second Messengers in Neurodegeneration
  • IV. Depression
  • 9 • Molecular and Cellular Determinants of Stress and Antidepressant Treatment
  • 10 • Long-Term Bidirectional Hormonal and Neuroplastic Responses to Stress: Implications for the Treatment of Depression
  • 11 • Signal Transduction Abnormalities in Bipolar Affective Disorder
  • V. Drug Dependence
  • 12 • Messengers in Opioid Dependence: Gene Disruption Studies
  • 13 • The 5-HT1B Knockout Mouse: An Animal Model of Vulnerability to Drugs of Abuse
  • 14 • Regulation of Dopamine Transporter by Phosphorylation and Impact on Cocaine Action
  • 15 • Dopamine Transporter mRNA in Human Brain: Distribution and Regulatory Effects in Autopsy Studies of Cocaine Abusers.

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