Hormones and Synapse
- 1st Edition, Volume 114 - July 27, 2020
- Editor: Gerald Litwack
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 0 2 5 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 2 0 2 6 - 9
Hormones and Synapse, Volume 114 in the Vitamins and Hormones series, highlights advances in the field, with this new volume presenting timely topics, including how growth ho… Read more
Hormones and Synapse, Volume 114 in the Vitamins and Hormones series, highlights advances in the field, with this new volume presenting timely topics, including how growth hormone promotes synaptogenesis, sex hormones and proteins involved in brain plasticity, corticotropin releasing factor modulates excitatory synaptic transmission, bisphenol a and memory: a role for dendritic spines, brain insulin resistance impairs hippocampal synaptic plasticity, estradiol induces synaptic rearrangements, stress and remodeling of hippocampal spine synapses, neurotrophin-3 modulates synaptic transmission, nongenomic neurosteroid modulation of hippocampal dendritic spines, neural sex steroids and hippocampal synaptic plasticity, origin of chemical synapses, neural sex steroids and hippocampal synaptic plasticity, and much more.
- Provides the authority and expertise of leading contributors from an international board of authors
- Presents the latest release in the Vitamins and Hormones series
- Includes the latest information on Hormones and Synapse
Undergraduates, graduates, academics and researchers in the field of vitamins and hormones
1. Evolutionary origins of chemical synapses
Saak V. Ovsepian, Valerie B. O'Leary and Nikolai P. Vesselkin
2. Ultrastructural and molecular features of excitatory and glutamatergic synapses. The auditory nerve synapses
María E. Rubio
3. Corticotropin releasing factor modulates excitatory synaptic transmission
Neal Joshi, Michael Aree and Daniel Chandler
4. Neurotrophin-3 modulates synaptic transmission
Elizabeth Hernández-Echeagaray
5. Growth hormone (GH) and synaptogenesis
Carlos G. Martínez-Moreno and Carlos Arámburo
6. Neural sex steroids and hippocampal synaptic plasticity
N. Brandt, L. Fester and G.M. Rune
7. Sex hormones and proteins involved in brain plasticity
Ignacio Camacho-Arroyo, Ana Gabriela Piña-Medina, Claudia Bello-Alvarez and Carmen Janín Zamora-Sánchez
8. Synaptic effects of estrogen
Kate Nicholson, Neil J. MacLusky and Csaba Leranth
9. Estrogen receptor signaling through metabotropic glutamate receptors
Kellie S. Gross and Paul G. Mermelstein
10. Estradiol induces synaptic rearrangements
Ivana Grković and Nataša Mitrović
11. Stress and remodeling of hippocampal spine synapses
Tibor Hajszan
12. Brain insulin resistance impairs hippocampal plasticity
Matteo Spinelli, Salvatore Fusco and Claudio Grassi
13. A potential role for dendritic spines in bisphenol-A induced memory impairments during adolescence and adulthood
Maya Frankfurt, Victoria Luine and Rachel E. Bowman
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 114
- Published: July 27, 2020
- Language: English
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Gerald Litwack
Dr. Litwack has authored 3 textbooks on biochemistry and hormones (one with John Wiley & Sons and 2 with Academic Press/Elsevier) and he has edited more than 70 volumes in the Vitamins & Hormones series (Academic Press/Elsevier); he has edited 14 volumes entitled Biochemical Actions of Hormones (Academica Press); He has edited (with David Kritchevsky) Actions of Hormones on Molecular Processes (Academic Press)
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Founding Chair and Professor, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, United States
Emeritus Professor, Rutgers University, United StatesRead Hormones and Synapse on ScienceDirect