Title | Neurobiology of Amino Acids, Peptides and Trophic Factors [electronic resource] / edited by James A. Ferrendelli, Robert C. Collins, Eugene M. Johnson |
---|---|
Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1988 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1721-0 |
Descript | XXXII, 272 p. online resource |
I. Excitatory Amino Acids -- 1. Excitatory Amino Acid Synapses: Studies of Normal and Reorganized Pathways -- 2. Conductance Mechanisms Activated by L-glutamate -- 3. Classification and Allosteric Modulation of Excitatory Amino Acid Signal Transduction in Brain Slices and Primary Cultures of Cerebellar Neurons -- 4. Excitatory Transmitters and Neuropsychiatric Disorders -- 5. Pharmacology of Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists and their Possible Therapeutic Use in Neurological Disease -- II. Trophic Factors -- 6. Evidence for the Role of Afferents in the Regulation of Neuronal Survival During Normal Periods of Developmental Cell Death: Motoneurons and the Ciliary Ganglion -- 7. The Biology of Nerve Growth Factor In Vivo -- 8. Schwann Cell Contact as a Factor in Neuronal Trophic Support and the Promotion of Neurite Growth -- 9. Role of Nerve Growth Factor in the Central Nervous System -- III. Neuropeptides -- 10. Neuropeptides: General Aspects -- 11. Role of Atriopeptin in Central Cardiovascular Control -- 12. Opioid Peptides: Possible Physiological Role As Endogenous Anticonvulsants -- 13. Alpha- and Beta-endopsychosins: Physiological Actions and Interactions with Excitatory Amino Acids -- 14. Neuropeptide Abnormalities in Alzheimerโs and Huntingtonโs Diseases -- IV. Short Communications -- 15. Demonstration of Individual Fibers from the Substantia Innominata to the Frontal Cortex of the Rat, Using Phaseolus vulgaris Leucoagglutinin (PHA-L) -- 16. Determination of the Pharmacokinetics of 2-Amino-7-Phosphonoheptanoate in Plasma and Cerebrospinal Fluid -- 17. Afferents to the Horizontal Diagonal Band of the Rat -- 18. Male Infertility: Preliminary Evidence for Two Neuroendocrine Mediators of Stress on Gonadal Function -- 19. Specific (D,L)-[3H]2-Amino-4-Phosphonobutyric Acid Binding to Frozen Synaptic Plasma Membranes -- 20. L-[3H]Glutamate Binding to an N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Recognition Site in Synaptic Plasma Membranes -- 21. Antagonist Effects of Y-Glutamyl-Aminomethylsulfonate in the In Vitro Hippocampal Slice -- 22. โTransmitter Specificโ Inputs to the Mediodorsal Thalamic Nucleus in the Rat -- 23. Characterization of Nerve Growth Factor Receptor-Bearing Cells in Cultures of Brain Tissue -- 24. Role of Hypothalamic GABA in Aversively Motivated Behaviors -- 25. Cholecystokinin Release from Rat Caudato-Putamen Slices Incubated In Vitro Is Inhibited by Excitatory Amino Acids -- 26. Luminescent Immunoassay for Salivary Cortisol Measurement in Psychoendocrine Studies -- 27. A Quantitative Study of the Development Expression of Nerve Growth Factor Receptors in Rats