Beyond the synapse : cell-cell signaling in synaptic plasticity /

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Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description:x, 310 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7363309
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Other authors / contributors:Fields, R. Douglas.
ISBN:9780521869140 (hardback)
0521869145 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-303) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of contributors
  • Introduction: Beyond the synapse
  • I. Spanning Scales of Neural Plasticity
  • 1. Memory beyond the synapse
  • 2. Between synapses and behavior: functional circuitry of the hippocampus
  • 3. Widening the lens: looking beyond the synapse for experience-driven brain plasticity
  • 4. Activity-dependent myelination
  • 5. Bipolar disorder: involvement of signaling cascades and AMPA receptor trafficking at synapses
  • II. Novelty, Stress, and Hormones in Plasticity
  • 6. Sleep-dependent memory consolidation and reconsolidation
  • 7. Consolidation and reconsolidation of Pavlovian fear-conditioning: roles for intracellular signaling and extracellular modulation in memory storage
  • 8. Emotional and cognitive reinforcement of rat hippocampal long-term potentiation by different learning paradigms
  • 9. Estrogen and hippocampal synaptic plasticity
  • 10. Steroid-induced hippocampal synaptic plasticity: sex differences and similarities
  • III. Cell-Cell Signaling Molecules in Synaptic Plasticity
  • 11. MHC class I in activity-dependent structural and functional plasticity
  • 12. Cytokine induction of neuronal receptor trafficking: relevance to synaptic function and excitotoxicity
  • 13. Neurotrophin signaling among neurons and glia during formation of synapses
  • 14. Regulation of neurogenesis by neurotrophins: implications in hippocampus-dependent memory
  • 15. Focal adhesion-like processes underlie induction of long-term potentiation in the Schaffer collateral-CA1 region of the hippocampus
  • 16. Signaling to the nucleus in long-term memory
  • IV. Non-Traditional Transmitters and Glia
  • 17. Diffusible hydrogen peroxide generated by synaptic activity inhibits axonal dopamine release in striatum
  • 18. D-serine as a putative glial neurotransmitter
  • 19. A dialogue between glia and neurons in the retina: modulation of neuronal excitability
  • 20. Metabotropic glutamate receptors as a target for astrocytic control of inhibitory synaptic transmission in the hippocampus
  • References
  • Index