Cellular and molecular neurophysiology / Constance Hammond. -- 4th ed. -- Boston, MA : Elsevier, c2015. – (59.5912/H225/4th ed.) |
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
I. NEURONS: EXCITABLE AND SECRETORY CELLS THAT ESTABLISH SYNAPSES
1. Neurons
2. Neuron-glial cell cooperation
3. Ionic gradients, membrane potential and ionic currents
4. The voltage-gated channels of Na+ action potentials
5. The voltage-gated channels of Ca2+ action potentials: Generalization
6. The chemical synapses
7. Neurotransmitter release
II. IONOTROPIC AND METABOTROPIC RECEPTORS IN SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION
8. The ionotropic nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
9. The ionotropic GABAA receptor
10. The ionotropic glutamate receptors
11. The metabotropic GABAB receptors
12. The metabotropic glutamate receptors
III. SOMATO-DENDRITIC PROCESSING AND PLASTICITY OF POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS
13. Somato-dendritic processing of postsynaptic potentials I: Passive properties of dendrites
14. Subliminal voltage-gated currents of the somato-dendritic membrane
15. Somato-dendritic processing of postsynaptic potentials II. Role of sub-threshold depolarizing voltage-gated currents
16. Somato-dendritic processing of postsynaptic potentials III. Role of high-voltage-activated depolarizing currents
17. Firing patterns of neurons
18. Synaptic plasticity
IV. THE HIPPOCAMPAL NETWORK
19. The adult hippocampal network
20. Maturation of the hippocampal network
Contributors
Index