From Messengers to Molecules: Memories Are Made of These

Gernot Riedel
University of Aberdeen

Bettina Platt
University of Aberdeen

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ISBN: 978-0-306-47862-8
Pub Date: November 8, 2004
Pages: 640
Color Pages: 2
Figures: 121

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Table of Contents

I. Ions and Ion Channels

1.1 Calcium
Miao-Kun Sun and Daniel L. Alkon

1.2 Potassium
Jeffrey Vernon and Karl Peter Giese

II. Principle Neurotransmitters

2.1 Glutamate
Gernot Riedel, Jacques Micheau and Bettina Platt

2.2 gamma-amino-butyric acid (GABA)
Claudio Castellano, Vincenzo Cestari and Alessandro Ciamei

2.3 Acetylcholine: I. Muscarinic receptors
 Giancarlo Pepeu and Maria Grazia Giovannini

2.4 Acetylcholine: II. Nicotinic receptors
Joyce Besheer and Rick A. Bevins

2.5 Serotonin
Marie-Christine Buhot, Mathieu Wolff and Louis Segu

2.6 Dopamine
Jan P.C. de Bruin

2.7 Adrenaline and noradrenaline
Marie Gibbs and Roger Summers

2.8 Histamine
Rüdiger U. Hasenöhrl and Joseph P. Huston

2.9 Adenosine and purines
 Trevor W. Stone, M-R. Nikbakht and E. Martin O’Kane

III. Neuromodulators

3.1 Cannabinoids
Lianne Robinson, Bettina Platt and Gernot Riedel

3.2 Opioids
Makoto Ukai, Ken Kanematsu, Tsutomu Kameyama and Takayoshi Mamiya

3.3 Neuropeptides
David De Wied and Gábor L. Kovács

3.4 Nerve growth factors and neurotrophins
Catherine Brandner

3.5 Eph receptors and ephrin ligands
Robert Gerlai

3.6 Corticosteroids
Carmen Sandi

IV. Second Messengers and Enzymes

4.1 Adenylyl cyclases
Nicole Mons and Jean-Louis Guillou

4.2 Phospholipases and oxidases
 Christian Hoelscher

4.3 Protein Kinase A
Monica RM Vianna and Ivan Izquierdo

4.4 Protein kinase C
Xavier Noguès, Alessia Pascale, Jacques Micheau and Fiorenzo Battaini

4.5 CaMKII
Martín Cammarota and Jorge H. Medina

4.6 MAP Kinases
 Joel C. Selcher, Edwin J. Weeber, and J. David Sweatt

4.7 Phosphatases
Pauleen Bennett and Kim T. Ng

4.8 Nitric Oxide
Kiyofumi Yamada and Toshitaka Nabeshima

V. Transcription factors, genes and proteins

5.1 KREB
 Paul W. Frankland and Sheena A. Josselyn

5.2 Immediate Early Genes
Jeffrey Greenwood, Pauline Curtis, Barbara Logan, Wickliffe Abraham and Mike Dragunow

5.3 Protein synthesis: I. Pharmacology
Oliver Stork and Hans Welzl

5.4 Protein synthesis: II. New proteins
Radmila Mileusnic

VI. Morphological changes in synapses and neurones

6.1 Synaptogenesis and structural remodeling
Yuri Geinisman, Robert W. Berry and Olga T. Ganeshina

6.2 Cell Adhesion Molecules
 Ciaran M. Regan

VII. Learning about Memory by Studying Brain Dysfunction

7.1 Animal and human amnesia: the cholinergic hypothesis revisited
 Robert Jaffard and Aline Marighetto

7.2 7.2. Aging and the calcium homeostasis
Wendy W.Wu and John F. Disterhoft

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