Research Catalog

Title

Excitatory amino acids and the cerebral cortex / edited by Fiorenzo Conti and T. Philip Hicks.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

• Conti, Fiorenzo.
• Hicks, T. Philip.

Description

xiii, 492 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• Cerebral cortex
• Excitatory amino acids > Physiological effect
• Cerebral Cortex
• Excitatory Amino Acids

Note

• "A Bradford book".

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-466) and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Why Excitatory Amino Acids and the Cerebral Cortex? -- 1. The Anatomy of the Cerebral Cortex: Aspects of Neuronal Morphology and Organization / Stewart H. C. Hendry -- 2. Diverse Neuronal Functions of the Cerebral Cortex / Barry W. Connors, Manuel A. Castro-Alamancos and Michael Beierlein -- 3. Calcium Channels and the Regulation of Glutamate Exocytosis / David G. Nicholls, David C. Budd, Michael A. Cousin, Brigitte Held, Judith Parkin and Jennifer M. Pocock -- 4. Glutamate Receptor Subunit Composition in Principal Neurons and Interneurons of the Central Nervous System / Maria Vincenza Catania, Jochen Weishaupt, Thorsten Melcher, Jorg R. P. Geiger, Peter Jonas and Hannah Monyer -- 5. Physiology of NMDA Receptors and Synaptic Currents / Shaul Hestrin -- 6. Physiology of AMPA Receptors: Biophysical Characteristics That Subserve Integrative Roles of Synapses / Laurence O. Trussell and Thomas S. Otis --
• 7. Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors and Cerebral Cortex / Ferdinando Nicoletti, Giuseppe Battaglia, Valeria Bruno, Giacomo Casabona, Agata Copani and Simone Musco -- 8. The Anatomy of Glutamatergic Transmission in the Cerebral Cortex / Fiorenzo Conti and Andrea Minelli -- 9. Physiology of Glutamatergic Transmission in the Cerebral Cortex / Alex M. Thomson, David C. West and Jim Deuchars -- 10. Excitatory Amino Acids in Thalamocortical Transmission / Richard J. Weinberg and Viktor N. Kharazia -- 11. Mechanisms of Dynamic Afferent Information Processing in Sensory Neocortex / Raju Metherate and John H. Ashe -- 12. Excitatory Amino Acids in Corticofugal Projections: Microscopic Evidence / Viktor N. Kharazia, Kristen D. Phend, Richard J. Weinberg and Aldo Rustioni -- 13. Physiological Studies of the Role of Excitatory Amino Acids and Their Receptors in Corticofugal Projections / Thomas E. Salt and Sean A. Eaton --
• 14. Muscarinic Modulation of Excitatory Synaptic Responses in Cortical Neurons / Robert W. Baughman, Fumitaka Kimura and Mikael Eliasson -- 15. Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors in Vertebrate Glial Cells / Frank Kirchhoff and Helmut Kettenmann -- 16. Astrocyte-Neuron Signaling / Vladimir Parpura, Trent A. Basarsky and Philip G. Haydon -- 17. Nitric Oxide-Synthesizing Neurons in the Cerebral Cortex Anatomy and Functional Implications / Chiye Aoki, Suzanne Fenstemaker, Julianne Rhee, Xiu-Zhen Song, C.-G. Go and Ted M. Dawson -- 18. The Effects of Nitric Oxide on Cortical Function / Joseph A. Gally -- 19. The Role of Excitatory Amino Acids in Cortical Development / Arnold R. Kriegstein, Alexander C. Flint and Joseph J. LoTurco -- 20. Functional Expression of NMDA Receptors in Developing Neurons / N. Traverse Slater and David J. Rossi -- 21. The Role of Excitatory Amino Acid Receptors in Developmental Plasticity of Sensory Neocortex / Kevin Fox --
• 22. NMDA-Type Glutamate Receptors and Use-Dependent Plasticity in Barrel Field Cortex / Ford Ebner, V. Rema and Michael Armstrong-James -- 23. Long-Term Potentiation in the Adult and Immature Visual Cortex / Alfredo Kirkwood and Mark F. Bear -- 24. A Role of Postsynaptic Calcium in Induction of Long-Term Potentiation and Depression in Rat Visual Cortex / Hiroki Yasuda and Tadaharu Tsumoto -- 25. NMDA Receptors, Synaptic Plasticity, and Learning and Memory / J. Nicholas P. Rawlins -- 26. The Role of Excitatory Amino Acids in Cerebrocortical Ischemic, Hypoglycemic, and Traumatic Damage / Domenico E. Pellegrini-Giampietro -- 27. Changes in Excitatory and Inhibitory Synaptic Circuits in the Human Epileptogenic Neocortex / Javier DeFelipe, Rafael G. Sola and Pilar Marco -- 28. Excitatory Amino Acids and Use-Dependent Plasticity: Epileptogenesis / Mark J. Routbort and James O. McNamara -- 29. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Failure of Glutamate Transport / Jeffrey D. Rothstein --
• 30. Excitatory Amino Acids and Alzheimer's Disease / Paul T. Francis, Andrew W. Procter, Iain P. Chessell and David M. Bowen -- 31. HIV-Related Neuronal Injury: Potential Therapy with NMDA Open-Channel Blockers and Redox Congeners of Nitric Oxide / Stuart A. Lipton -- 32. The Role of Glutamate in the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia / Francine M. Benes.

ISBN

0262032384 (hc : alk. paper)

LCCN

95043192

OCLC

• 33441277
• ocm33441277

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries