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Neurobiology of DOPA as a neurotransmitter

Title
Neurobiology of DOPA as a neurotransmitter / [editors] Yoshimi Misu, Yoshio Goshima.
Publication
Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Misu, Yoshimi, 1934-
  • Goshima, Yoshio.
Description
384 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subject
  • Dopa > Physiological effect
  • Neurotransmitters
  • Dopamine > physiology
  • Neurotransmitter Agents
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. L-DOPA : a historical perspective / Oleh Hornykiewicz -- Ch. 2. DOPA as a neurotransmitter candidate / Yoshimi Misu and Yoshio Goshima -- Ch. 3. Active uptake system of L-DOPA in CNS / Yukio Sasaki, Yoshio Goshima and Yoshimi Misu -- Ch. 4. Morphology of DOPAergic neurons in mammals / Hitoshi Okamura, Tomoko Ueyama, Satoru Masubuchi and Kunio Kitahama -- Ch. 5. Physiological release of DOPA / Yoshimi Misu, Kaneyoshi Honjo and Yoshio Goshima -- Ch. 6. Mechanisms of calcium-associated exocytosis of striatal dopamine and DOPA release studied by in vivo microdialysis / Motohiro Okada, Gang Zhu, Shukuko Yoshida, Shinichi Hirose and Sunao Kaneko -- Ch. 7. Release of DOPA from dog peripheral tissues / Gertrude M. Tyce, Larry W. Hunter, Eric W. Kristensen, Stewart L. Chritton and Duane K. Rorie -- Ch. 8. Presynaptic responses to levodopa, suggesting the existence of DOPA recognition sites / Yoshio Goshima and Yoshimi Misu -- Ch. 9. The neuroregulatory properties of levodopa : evidence and potential role in the treatment of Parkinson's disease / Joakim Tedroff -- Ch. 10. General survey of blood pressure regulation in lower brainstem and responses to levodopa and glutamate / Takao Kubo -- Ch. 11. Physiological and pharmacological responses to DOPA involved in baroreflex neurotransmission in the lower brainstem of anesthetized rats / Yoshimi Misu, Kaneyoshi Honjo and Yoshio Goshima -- Ch. 12. Glutamatergic and nitroxidergic neurotransmission in the nucleus tractus solitarii / William T. Talman and Li-Hsien Lin -- Ch. 13. Is DOPA a reliable neurotransmitter of baroreflex neurotransmission in the brainstem? / Miao-Kun Sun -- Ch. 14. Levodopa itself causes increased activity in rats : the clinical implications / Taizo Nakazato -- Ch. 15. Behavioral effects of exogenously applied and endogenously released DOPA / Yoshimi Misu, Kaneyoshi Honjo and Yoshio Goshima -- Ch. 16. Modulatory effects of levodopa on D2 dopamine receptors in striatum assessed using in vivo microdialysis and PET / Jolanta Opacka-Juffry and Susan P. Hume -- Ch. 17. Dopamine-independent inhibition of hippocampal CA1 neurons produced by nanomolar levodopa with facilitation of noradrenaline and GABA release in rats / Masashi Sasa, Kumatoshi Ishihara, Muhammad Akbar and Yoshimi Misu -- Ch. 18. Levodopa-induced vesicular release of glutamate and mechanisms of levodopa-induced neurotoxicity in primary neuron cultures in rat striata / Akinori Akaike and Takehiko Maeda -- Ch. 19. Neuroprotective and neurotoxic effects of L-DOPA in rat midbrain dopaminergic neurons in culture / Maria Angeles Mena, Maria Jose Casarejos, Eulalia Rodriguez-Martin, Rosa Maria Solano, Jaime Menendez and Justo Garcia de Yebenes -- Ch. 20. DOPA : an upstream factor for glutamate release and delayed neuron death by transient ischemia in striatum and hippocampal CA1 region of conscious rats / Yoshimi Misu and Yoshio Goshima -- Ch. 21. Effect of neonatal treatment with monosodium glutamate on dopamine and DOPA neurons in the medial basal hypothalamus of rats / Ibolya Bodnar, Daniel Szekacs, Mark Olah, Hitoshi Okamura, Miklos Vecsernyes, Marton I. K. Fekete and Gyorgy M. Nagy -- Ch. 22. Molecular mechanism of memantine in treatment of Alzheimer's disease and other neurologic insults / Stuart A. Lipton.
ISBN
0415332915 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2005050209
OCLC
  • ocm60596230
  • SCSB-5237734
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries