Unjustified enrichment: key issues in comparative perspective / edited by David Johnston, Reinhard Zimmermann

• Record Nr.: UNINA990008557870403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : Cambridge University press, c2002
• ISBN: 0-521-80820-0
• Descrizione fisica: XLII, 749 p. ; 25 cm
• Disciplina: 346.029
• Locazione: FGBC
• Collocazione: VIII F 977
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Elements of molecular neurobiology / / C.U.M. Smith

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911018833403321
• Autore: Smith C. U. M (Christopher Upham Murray)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, : Wiley, 2002
• ISBN: 9786610270712; 9780470857175; 047085717X; 9781280270710; 1280270713; 9780470857496; 0470857498
• Edizione: [3rd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (635 p.)
• Disciplina: 573.848; 599/.0188
• Soggetti: Molecular neurobiology; Neurobiology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previous ed.: 1996.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Elements of Molecular Neurobiology Third Edition; CONTENTS; Preface; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; 1 Introductory Orientation; 2 The Conformation of Informational Macromolecules; 3 Information Processing in Cells; 4 Molecular Evolution; 5 Manipulating Biomolecules; 6 Genomics; 7 Biomembranes; 8 G-protein-coupled Receptors; 9 Pumps; 10 Ligand-gated Ion Channels; 11 Voltage-gated Channels; 12 Resting Potentials and Cable Conduction; 13 Sensory Transduction; 14 The Action Potential; 15 The Neuron as a Secretory Cell; 16 Neurotransmitters and Neuromodulators; 17 The Postsynaptic Cell18 Developmental Genetics of the Brain; 19 Epigenetics of the Brain; 20 Memory; 21 Some Pathologies; Appendix 1 Molecules and Consciousness; Appendix 2 Units; Appendix 3 Data; Appendix 4 Genes; Appendix 5 Physical Models of Ion Conduction and Gating; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Glossary; Bibliography; Index of Neurological Disease; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This thoroughly revised and updated new edition of C.U.M. Smith's 1996 text gives an account of the molecular biology of the brain as it stands at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It describes the latest research in neurobiology made possible by modern molecular biology techniques. The author synthesizes this new knowledge and demonstrates how an understanding at the molecular level can contribute towards a theory of the brain in health and disease.