Essays in Biochemistry Volume 33
Molecular Biology of the Brain
S. J. Higgins
Contents:
- Preface..........xi
- Authors........xiii
- Abbreviations.....xix
- 1
- Molecular cues that guide the development of neural connectivity
- Guy Tear...........1-13
- 2
- Understanding neurotransmitter receptors: molecular biology based strategies
- Mark Wheatley...........15-27
- 3
- Molecular analysis of neurotransmitter release
- Giampietro Schiavo and Gudrun Stenbeck..........29-41
- 4
- Mitochondria in the life and death of neurons
- Samantha L. Budd and David G. Nicholls.............43-52
- 5
- Neuro regeneration: plasticity for repair and adaptation
- Pico Caroni..............53-64
- 6
- A molecular basis for opiate action
- Dominique Massotte and Brigitte L. Kieffer........65-77
- 7
- Gases as neurotransmitters
- Jane E. Haley............79-91
- 8
- Molecular biology of olfactory receptors
- Yitzhak Pilpel, Alona Sosinsky and Doron Lancet..........93-104
- 9
- Pathology and drug action in schizophrenia: insights from molecular biology
- Philip G. Strange.............105-116
- 10
- Genetics of Alzheimer's disease
- Michael Hutton, Jordi Pérez Tur and John Hardy..............117-131
- 11
- Use of brain grafts to study the pathogenesis of prion diseases
- Adriano Aguzzi, Michael A. Klein, Christine Musahl, Alex J. Raeber, Thomas Blättler, Ivan Hegyi, Rico Frigg and Sebastian Brandner...........133-147
- 12
- Pathological mechanisms in Huntington's disease and other polyglutamine expansion diseases
- Astrid Lunkes, Yvon Trottier and Jean Louis Mandel..............149-163
- 13
- The matter of mind: molecular control of memory
- Emily P. Huang and Charles F. Stevens...............165-178
- 14
- Future developments
- Susan Greenfield...............179-191
- Subject index.........193
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