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UNINA9910454639503321 |
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Taupin Philippe |
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The hippocampus [[electronic resource] ] : neurotransmission and plasticity in the nervous system / / Philippe Taupin |
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New York, : Nova Biomedical Books, c2007 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (154 p.) |
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Hippocampus (Brain) - Physiology |
Neural transmission |
Neuroplasticity |
GABA |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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""THE HIPPOCAMPUS -NEUROTRANSMISSION AND PLASTICITYIN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM""; ""NOTICE TO THE READER""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""THE HIPPOCAMPUS""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE HIPPOCAMPUS""; ""HIPPOCAMPAL SUBFIELDS""; ""The Dentate Gyrus""; ""The Cornu Ammonis""; ""HIPPOCAMPAL PATHWAYS""; ""The Tri-Synaptic Circuit""; ""Hippocampal Afferences""; ""Hippocampal Interneurons""; ""Feed-Back Inhibition and Feed-Forward Inhibition""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""NEUROTRANSMITTERSIN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION"" |
""NEUROTRANSMITTERS IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM""""Characterizing Neurotransmitters""; ""Ionotropic and Metabotropic Receptors""; ""Excitatory and Inhibitory Neurotransmitters""; ""Glutamate and GABA the Main Neurotransmitters of the Nervous System""; ""THE EXCITATORY NEUROTRANSMITTER GLUTAMATE""; ""Metabolism""; ""Glutamate Receptors""; ""Glutamate Transporters""; ""THE INHIBITORY NEUROTRANSMITTER GABA""; ""Metabolism""; ""GABA Receptors""; ""GABA Transporters""; ""DEFINING GLU AND GABA AS NEUROTRANSMITTERS"" |
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""GABA is thought to Occur in high Concentrations Exclusively in Nerve Cellsthat use it as Neurotransmitters""""Glu is not Restricted to Neurons that use it as a Neurotransmitter""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""GENE EXPRESSION IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""MOLECULAR MARKERS OF THE HIPPOCAMPUS""; ""GENE PROFILING OF HIPPOCAMPAL SUB-REGIONS""; ""FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS DEFINING THE CA2 REGION""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""GRANULE CELLS AND MOSSY FIBERS""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE MOSSY FIBER-CA3 PYRAMIDAL CELL SYNAPSES"" |
""Histology of Mossy Fiber Terminals""""Isolation and Purification of Mossy Fiber Terminals: Mossy FiberSynaptosomes""; ""BIOCHEMISTRY OF GRANULE CELLS AND MOSSY FIBERS""; ""Granule Cells are Glutamatergic Excitatory Nerve Cells""; ""Endogenous Opioid Peptides are Enriched in Granule Cells and MossyFibers""; ""Mossy Fibers Express Neurotrophins and Trophic Activities""; ""Desmoplakin is Expressed by Granule Cells of the Hippocampus""; ""Zinc is Enriched in Granule Cells and Mossy Fibers""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""THE DALE�S PRINCIPLE""; ""ABSTRACT"" |
""INTRODUCTION""""NEUROTRANSMITTERS AND NEUROMEDIATORS""; ""MULTIPLE NEUROTRANSMITTERSWITHIN THE SAME NERVE CELLS""; ""SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CO-RELEASE OF MULTIPLETRANSMITTERS FROM THE SAME NERVE CELL POPULATION""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""PLASTICITY OF THE GABAPHENOTYPE IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""EXCITATORY ACTIVITY OF GABA""; ""During Development and in the Adult Nervous System""; ""Circadian Rhythms""; ""Traumatic Injury""; ""Reversal of Cl- Distribution""; ""GABA PHENOTYPE IN GLUTAMATERGIC NERVE CELLS""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES"" |
""MOSSY FIBERS AND GABA"" |
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UNINA9910971552503321 |
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Tangwa Godfrey B |
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Road companion to democracy and meritocracy : (further essays from an African perspective) / / Godfrey B. Tangwa |
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Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2010 |
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1-282-86919-1 |
9786612869198 |
9956-578-37-1 |
9956-616-84-2 |
9956-616-92-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (264 p.) |
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Democracy - Africa |
Africa Politics and government Philosophy |
Africa Civilization |
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"This book is a follow-up to my Democracy and meritocracy : philosophical essays and talks from an African perspective (Galda + Wilch Verlag, Glienicke-Berlin, 1996)"--P. xiii. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Content; Dedication; Acknowledgement; Preface; Part One; 1. Democracy and Development in Africa: Putting the Horse before the Cart; 2. The Medium and Long Term Lessons of the Lake Nyos Natural Disaster; 3. X For All by the Year 2000; 4. Letter to the Dean; 5. Fonlon's Socratic Life: Its Relevance to our Political Culture and Contemporary Situation; 6. The Sasse Motto Fide Quaerens Intellectum; 7. The Plight of the Ex-seminarian and Ex-religious in Modern Cameroon; 8. Bernard Fonlon Evening Monday 19th November 1990; 9. Fale Wache, Lament of a Mother |
10. On The Television Programme "The Debate"11. Is There Really an Anglophone Problem in Cameroon?; 12. The Beginning of the End; 13. Our Book of Revelations; 14. Cameroonians are Unshockable; 15. From Unshockability to Exaggerated Credulity; 16. For the Attention of my Students; 17. Revelations Chapter 3; 18. Our Mungo Bridges; Part Two. In the Spirit of GOBATA; 1. The Stuff Mandela is Made of; 2. Of Prof |
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Ngwafor's Practical Jealousy and Ambition's Sterner Stuff; 3. Struggling Non-violently: The Case of the SCNC; 4. Western Democracies and African Dictatorships |
5. Western Democracies and African Dictatorships6. Tenth Anniversary of a Horrible Year; 7. Where we Should Be Heading; 8. In the Spirit of a Zealous Disciple; 9. A Rich Harvest of Peters by Paul; 10. The Collapse of the French Empire in Africa; 11. Between Mvondo and Mvodo; The Emergence of Victor Ayissi; 12. Corruption Fights Cameroon; 13. Rumours of Dangerous Manoeuvres and Machinations; 14. Politics of Back Scratching; 15. For the Attention of All Potential Ethnic Cleansers; 16. Independent Electoral Commission, an Absolute Necessity; 17. How to Demystify John Fru Ndi |
18. If You Saw The Shah Escaping...19. On Behalf of a College Room-mate; 20. Mixed Signals of the Emerging Shape of Things; 21. Address to the Youth; 22. Registering on the Electoral List; 23. In Provisional Praise of Paul Biya; 24. Constitutional Council: Why we Are Worried; 25. For Every Mobutu a Kabila; 26. Killing an Innocent Person Can Never Be Justified; 27. On the Threshold of a Democratic Breakthrough; 28. Yielding Place to a New Order; 29. Mola Njoh Litumbe's Concept of Home; 30. As a Participant Observer; 31. Waiting for Kabila; 32. Kleptocracy and Mendacity as Identification Marks |
33. Non Dimittis, Domine33Non Dimittis, Domine |
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Each of the essays in this book is marked by a certain simplicity and clarity, a seriousness tinged with humour, masking a profundity that are unmistakably characteristic of Godfrey B. Tangwa alias Rodcod Gobata, one of the leading critical minds amongst Cameroonians. The essays are centred on the theme of democracy and meritocracy which the author believes to be the pre-conditions for genuine development in Africa. The immediate focus of these essays is Cameroon, a country remarkable for experimenting with French/English bilingualism and for having a political dictatorship which claims, wrong |
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