Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Biogenic Amines in Vertebrate System
  • Chapter I
  • Biogenic amines : a historical perspective / Michael Gerald
  • Chapter II
  • Life's requirements for catecholamines / Suzanne Roffler-Tarlov
  • Chapter III
  • Aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase / Maria Hadjiconstantinou, Anne-Marie Duchemin, Abul Azad and Norton H. Neff
  • Chapter IV
  • Striatal dopamine storage and utilization / Lane J. Wallace
  • Chapter V
  • The importance of monoamine transporters in the development of psychopharmacology / Leslie Iversen
  • Chapter VI
  • Amine false transmitters, co-transmitters and volume transmission : fifty years of exceptions to the standard model of chemical neurotransmission / S. Robert Snodgrass
  • Chapter VII
  • Pharmacological approaches for the evaluation of drug-receptor related events / Norman J. Uretsky, Margarita Salazar-Bookaman, and Popat N. Patil
  • Chapter VIII
  • What has 6-hydroxydopamine taught us about Parkinson's disease? / Michael J. Zigmond
  • Chapter IX
  • The molecular and genetic basis of Parkinson disease / Tahira Farooqui
  • Chapter X
  • Modulation of neurotransmission signaling by neural membrane polyunsaturated fatty acids / Akhlaq A. Farooqui
  • Chapter XI
  • Estrogen-dopamine interactions in forebrain modulation of the sensorimotor gating / John J. Byrnes, Jacqueline T. Draper, and Elizabeth M. Byrnes
  • Chapte XII
  • Stereoselectivity of norepinephrine enantiomers at pre and post-junctional adrenoceptors / Vandana Kumari, Miguel B. Farah, Salomon Z. Langer, Chenglong Li and Popat N. Patil
  • Chapter XIII
  • Trace amines and their receptors comprise a novel vertebrate aminergic signalling system / Mark D. Berry, Jarrod Nickel, and Bruno Tomberli
  • II. Biogenic Amines in Invertebrate System Chapter XIV
  • Quantification of octopamine in invertebrate and vertebrate nervous systems / Tahira Farooqui
  • Chapter XV
  • Pharmacology of invertebrate octopamine and tyramine receptors / Thomas Roeder
  • Chapter XVI
  • The cellular and molecular biology of octopaminergic neurons / Herman K. Lehman
  • Chapter XVII
  • Perspective and future developments on biogenic amines in the CNS / Tahira Farooqui and Akhlaq Farooqui
  • Index.