Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology (Hardcover)

Part 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 Ca+2 Action Potentials: Generalization 6. The Chemical Synapses 7. Neurotransmitter Release Part II.? Ionotropic and Metabotropic Receptors in Synaptic Transmission and Sensory Transduction 8. The Ionotropic Nicotinic Acetycholine Receptors 9. The Ionotropic GABAA Receptor 10. The Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors 11. The Metabotropic GABAB Receptors 12. The Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors Part 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 Subthreshold 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 Part IV.? The Adult Hippocampal Network 19. The Adult Hippocampal Network 20. Maturation of the Hippocampal Network