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Cerebral Signal Transduction: From First to Fourth Messengers

By Maarten E. A. Reith

Book information

Publisher
Humana Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9780896036086, 9781592590193, 0896036081
Open Library ID
OL8253647M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3963865 bytes)
Series
Contemporary Neuroscience
Edition
1st
Pages
428\442
Topic
Medicine Neurology
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

A team of leading experts comprehensively review and synthesize the most recent advances in our understanding of the role of cerebral signaling in neuronal and cerebral function. The authors emphasize the functional role of the various signaling pathways in memory, apoptosis and degeneration, depression, and drug dependence in both health and diseased states. By taking full advantage of the newfound ability to selectively remove, reduce, or enhance specific components of the signaling pathways, the investigators writing here illuminate the varied signaling cascades, their crosstalk, and the many possibilities for changes in gene expression underlying long-term changes in brain function. Cutting-edge and comprehensive, Cerebral Signal Transduction: From First to Fourth Messengers advances our understanding of the mechanistic underpinnings of complex behavioral processes and clinically relevant brain diseases. A major contribution to the development of the novel pharmacotherapeutics targeting downstream events in the cascade of second, third, and fourth messengers, it will serve experimental and clinical neuroscientists as the best and most complete guide to neuronal signaling.

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