Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Neural Membranes and Transport (Springer Reference)

ISBN: 0387303472

Author: Reith, Maarten E.A.

Condition: New

Lipid rafts and neural membranes.- Brain cholestrol in health and disease.- Water movement in brain role of aquaporine in neural signal transduction and neural injury.- blood brain barrier drug transport and brain homeostasis.- Tight juctions in the blood barrier and clacium signaling.- Pathology of the blood brain barrier.- P glycoprotein the blood brain barrier and central drug action.- The blood brain barrier as an efflux system.- A practical approach to computational models of the blood brain barrier.- Peptide mediators of the brain endothelium.- Na+K+ATPase in the brain: structure and function.- Na+Ca2+ exchange and Ca2 transport in neurons: properties and physiological fuction.- Glutamate induced neuronakl death and NA+/CA2+ exhange.- Role and regulation of cooper and zinc transport proteins in the central nervous system.- Synaptic vesicle recycling.- Mitochondrial Membrane: Genetic Defects in respiratory chain enzymes and MELAS.- The GABA transport family: SLC-6.- Monoamine transporters in the brain structure and function.- Regulation of monoamine, trnasporters and their function.- Transporters for amino acids: glu, neutral.- SLC7 family for amino acid transport.- SLC36: proton coupled amino acis transport.- SLC28 family of transporters for neural amino acids.- Vesicular transporters for monamines/Ach, GABA and glu.- Glucose transporter.- Peptide transport in the central nervous system.- Transport Peptides in the brain.