Molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurotransmitter release /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Wenner-Gren International Symposium on "Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Neurotransmitter Release"
Other Authors: Stjärne, Lennart
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Raven Press, [1994]
Series:Advances in second messenger and phosphoprotein research ; v. 29.
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Table of Contents:
  • Concept of neurotransmitter release
  • Roles of synaptic vesicle proteins in exocytosis of transmitter
  • Synapsin I, an actin-binding protein regulating synaptic vesicle traffic in the nerve terminal
  • Tetanus and botulinal neurotoxins: tools to understand exocytosis in neurons
  • Synaptic vesicle proteins and exocytosis
  • Intracellular membrane fusion
  • Multiple transmitter pools and pathways of transmitter release
  • Final steps in Ca²⁺-triggered exocytosis in neuroendocrine cells
  • Novel mammalian guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) specific for rab proteins
  • GTP-binding proteins: necessary components of the presynaptic terminal for synaptic transmission and its modulation
  • Multiple roles of calcium in transmitter mobilization and release
  • Localization of calcium concentration microdomains at the active zone in the squid giant synapse
  • Molecular pathways for presynaptic calcium signaling
  • Distinctive properties of a neuronal calcium channel and its contribution to excitatory synaptic transmission in the central nervous system.
  • (cont) Different cellular mechanisms of release
  • Exocytosis and endocytosis in single peptidergic nerve terminals
  • Glutamate exocytosis from isolated nerve terminals
  • Central glutamatergic transmission: a view from the presynaptic axon
  • Differential release of classical transmitters and peptides
  • Quantal mechanisms in the central nervous system
  • Quantal analysis of excitatory postsynaptic currents at the hippocampal mossy fiber-CA3 pyramidal cell synapse
  • Nature of quantal transmission at central excitatory synapses
  • Quantal analysis of the synaptic excitation of CA1 hippocampal pyramidal cells
  • One-vesicle hypothesis and multivesicular release
  • Probabilistic secretion of quanta at excitatory synapses on CA1 pyramidal neurons
  • Low synaptic convergence of CA3 collaterals on CA1 pyramidal cells suggests few release sites
  • Quantal mechanisms in the peripheral nervous system
  • Depression and augmentation of quantal release in adrenal chromaffin cells
  • Nonuniformity and plasticity of quantal release at crustacean motor nerve terminals.
  • (cont) Regulation of transmitter release by muscle length in frog motor nerve terminals: dynamics of the effect and the roles of integrin-ECM interactions
  • Quantal secretion from single visualized synaptic varicosities of sympathetic nerve terminals
  • Neurotransmitter release mechanisms in autonomic nerve terminals
  • Spatiotemporal pattern of quantal release of ATP and noradrenaline from sympathetic nerves: consequences for neuromuscular transmission
  • Role of Ca²⁺ in transmitter release and long-term potentiation at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses
  • Communication of synaptic potentiation between synapses of the hippocampus
  • Activity-dependent modulation of developing neuromuscular synapses
  • Molecular and structural changes underlying long-term memory storage in Aplysia.