From Messengers to Molecules

Preface - Abbreviations

Section 1. Ions and Ion Channels-Calcium-Potassium

Section 2. Principle Neurotransmitters- Glutamate Receptors - ã-Amino-Butyric Acid (GABA)- Acetylcholine: I. Muscarinic Receptors - Acetylcholine: II. Nicotinic Receptors- Serotonin - Dopamine - Adrenaline and Noradrenaline- Histamine - Adenosine and Purines

Section 3. Neuromodulators- Cannabinoids - Opioids - Neuropeptides - Nerve Growth Factors and Neurotrophins - Eph Receptors and Their Ephrin Ligands in Neural Plasticity- Corticosteroids

Section 4. Second Messengers and Enzymes- Adenylyl Cyclases - Phospholipases and Oxidases - Protein Kinase A - Protein Kinase C - CaMKinase II - MAP Kinases - Phosphatases - Nitric Oxide

Section 5. Transcription Factors, Genes and Proteins- CREB - Immediate-Early Genes - Protein Synthesis: I. Pharmacology - Protein Synthesis: II. New Proteins

Section 6. Morphological Changes in Synapses and Neurones- Learning-Induced Synaptogenesis and Structural Synaptic Remodeling - Cell Adhesion Molecules

Section 7. Learning about Memory by Studying Brain Dysfunction- Animal and Human Amnesia: The Cholinergic Hypothesis Revisited - Aging and the Calcium Homeostasis

Index