From messengers to molecules : memories are made of these / [edited by] Gernot Riedel, Bettina Platt.

Georgetown, Tex. : Landes Bioscience/Eurekah.com ; New York, N.Y. : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2004], ©2004.

614 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Copy 1 Donor: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Section 1. Ions and Ion Channels -- 1.1. Calcium / Miao-Kun Sun and Daniel L. Alkon -- 1.2. Potassium / Jeffrey Vernon and Karl Peter Giese -- Section 2. Principle Neurotransmitters -- 2.1. Glutamate Receptors / Gernot Riedel, Jacques Micheau and Bettina Platt -- 2.2. y-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 E. Gibbs and Roger J. Summers -- 2.8. Histamine / Rudiger U. Hasenohrl and Joseph P. Huston -- 2.9. Adenosine and Purines / Trevor W. Stone, M-R. Nikbakht and E. Martin O'Kane -- Section 3. Neuromodulators -- 3.1. Cannabinoids / Lianne Robinson, Bettina Platt and Gernot Riedel -- 3.2. Opioids / Makoto Ukai ... [et al.] -- 3.3. Neuropeptides / David De Wied and Gabor L. Kovacs -- 3.4. Nerve Growth Factors and Neurotrophins / Catherine Brandner -- 3.5. Eph Receptors and Their Ephrin Ligands in Neural Plasticity / Robert Gerlai -- 3.6. Corticosteroids / Carmen Sandi -- Section 4. Second Messengers and Enzymes -- 4.1. Adenylyl Cyclases / Nicole Mons and Jean-Louis Guillou -- 4.2. Phospholipases and Oxidases / Christian Holscher -- 4.3. Protein Kinase A / Monica R.M. Vianna and Ivan Izquierdo -- 4.4. Protein Kinase C / Xavier Nogus ... [et al.] -- 4.5. CaMKinase II / Martin Cammarota and Jorge H. Medina -- 4.6. MAP Kinases / Joel C. Selcher, Edwin J. Weeber and J. David Sweatt -- 4.7. Phosphatases / Pauleen C. Bennett and Kim T. Ng -- 4.8. Nitric Oxide / Kiyofumi Yamada and Toshitaka Nabeshima -- Section 5. Transcription Factors, Genes and Proteins -- 5.1. CREB / Paul W. Frankland and Sheena A. Josselyn -- 5.2. Immediate-Early Genes / Jeffrey Greenwood ... [et al.] -- 5.3. Protein Synthesis : I. Pharmacology / Oliver Stork and Hans Welzl -- 5.4. Protein Synthesis : II. New Proteins / Radmila Mileusnic -- Section 6. Morphological Changes in Synapses and Neurones -- 6.1. Learning-Induced Synaptogenesis and Structural Synaptic Remodeling / Yuri Geinisman, Robert W. Berry and Olga T. Ganeshina -- 6.2. Cell Adhesion Molecules / Ciaran M. Regan -- Section 7. Learning about Memory by Studying Brain Dysfunction -- 7.1. Animal and Human Amnesia : The Cholinergic Hypothesis Revisited / Robert Jaffard and Aline Marighetto -- 7.2. Aging and the Calcium Homeostasis / Wendy W. Wu and John F. Disterhoft.

Includes bibliographical references and index.