TY - BOOK AU - Malcom Slaughter TI - Basic concepts in neuroscience: a student's survival guide SN - 9780071120166 U1 - 612.8 PY - 2002/// CY - New york PB - Mcgraw hill KW - cell biology of the nervous system, specialized adaptations of neurons, glia and other nonneuronal cells, developmental biology of the nervous system, neural induction, cellular differentiation, cell migration, process outgrowth, synaptogenesis and programmed cell death, synaptic remodeling and structured alterations, neuronal signaling, membrane potentials, action potentials, cable properties, synaptic potentials, presynaptic modulation of transmitter release, postsynaptic plasticity, synaptic trasmission, types osynapses, secretory pathways, presynaptic specializations for secretion, molecular machinery for membrane fusion, retrieval of vesicular membrane after exocytosis, diseases of the neuromuscular junction, difference between cns synapses and neuromuscular junction, neurotransmitters, criteria for a substance being a neurotransmitter, blood -brain barrier:protector of brain, structure and function of the synapse, neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, biochemistry of biogenic amines, synthesis and degradation of glutamate and glycine, sensory systems, neural control of motor activities, rhythmic motor activity and respiration ER -