Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9780080556949
Description: The only current text reference on the market to focus on the molecular and cellular physiology of nerve cells.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Front cover; Cellular and molecular neurophysiology; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Neurons; Chapter 2 Neuronglial cell cooperation; Chapter 3 Ionic gradients, membrane potential and ionic currents; Chapter 4 The voltage-gated channels of Na[sup(+)] action potentials; Chapter 5 The voltage-gated channels of Ca[sup(2+)] action potentials: Generalization; Chapter 6 The chemical synapses; Chapter 7 Neurotransmitter release; Chapter 8 The ionotropic nicotinic acetylcholine receptors; Chapter 9 The ionotropic GABA[sub(A)] receptor.; title: Chapter 10 The ionotropic glutamate receptorsChapter 11 The metabotropic GABA[sub(B)] receptors; Chapter 12 The metabotropic glutamate receptors; Chapter 13 Somato-dendritic processing of postsynaptic potentials I: Passive properties of dendrites; Chapter 14 Subliminal voltage-gated currents of the somato-dendritic membrane; Chapter 15 Somato-dendritic processing of postsynaptic potentials II. Role of subliminal depolarizing.