The Metabotropic glutamate receptors
By: edited by P. Jeffrey Conn, Jitendra Patel.
Contributors: Conn, P. Jeffrey.; Patel, Jitendra.
Series: The Receptors
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Glutamic acid -- Receptors; Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate -- metabolism; Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate -- physiology; Second Messenger Systems -- physiology
Description: The Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors offers state-of-the-art summaries and reviews of virtually everything known today about metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs), including their molecular biology, pharmacology, anatomical distribution, and physiological and pathological roles. Illuminating the overall role played by this crucial class of receptors in brain function, the book also pinpoints those areas in which there is the greatest continuing need for focused research.

Because mGluRs have the potential for participating in virtually all known functions of the central nervous system (CNS), the opportunity now exists to develop pharmacological agents that can potentially alter many brain disease processes by selective interaction with precise CNS functions.

With its critical and insightful reviews, The Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors will immediately become your essential key to the development of novel treatment strategies for the widest variety of neurological disorders.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.