Synaptic plasticity : dynamics, development and disease /

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Imprint:Vienna ; New York : Springer, c2012.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 618 p.) : ill.
Language:English
Series:Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 0065-2598 ; 970
Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; 970.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8873039
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Other authors / contributors:Kreutz, Michael R., 1961-
Sala, Carlo.
ISBN:9783709109328 (electronic bk.)
3709109329 (electronic bk.)
9783709109311
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other form:Print version: Synaptic plasticity. Vienna : Springer-Verlag, 2012
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Molecular organization of the pre- and postsynaptic scaffold
  • Glutamate Receptors in Synaptic Assembly and Plasticity: Case Studies on Fly NMJs
  • Scaffold Proteins at the Postsynaptic Density
  • Diversity of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor-Interacting Proteins and Pathophysiological Functions
  • Regulation of the Actin Cytoskeleton in Dendritic Spines
  • Synaptic Cell Adhesion Molecules
  • Part 2. Molecular dynamics of the synapse
  • Molecular Dynamics of the Excitatory Synapse
  • The Brain's Extracellular Matrix and Its Role in Synaptic Plasticity
  • Molecular Motors in Cargo Trafficking and Synapse Assembly
  • Surface Traffic in Synaptic Membranes
  • Synaptic Protein Degradation in Memory Reorganization
  • AMPA Receptor Assembly: Atomic Determinants and Built-In Modulators
  • Developmental Plasticity of the Dendritic Compartment: Focus on the Cytoskeleton
  • Dendritic mRNA Targeting and Translation
  • Gliotransmission and the Tripartite Synapse
  • Part 3. Synapse-to-nucleus communication
  • Roles of Neuronal Activity-Induced Gene Products in Hebbian and Homeostatic Synaptic Plasticity, Tagging, and Capture
  • Long-Distance Signaling from Synapse to Nucleus via Protein Messengers
  • Nuclear Calcium Signaling
  • Integrating Neurotransmission in Striatal Medium Spiny Neurons
  • Part 4. Synaptic dysfunction and Synaptopathies
  • Synaptic Dysfunction and Intellectual Disability
  • Synaptic Pathology of Down Syndrome
  • The Synaptic Pathology of Drug Addiction
  • Synaptic Dysfunction in Schizophrenia
  • Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Mental Retardation in the Fragile X Syndrome: From Gene Mutation/s to Spine Dysmorphogenesis
  • Synaptic Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease
  • Synaptic Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease.