Chemical and Cellular ArchitectureAbel Lajtha After the completion of the first edition of this series, this editor thought that a new edition would not be warranted in less than IS, perhaps 20, years, but it seems that we live in a time in which rapid changes are the norm and findings in a field such as neurochemistry develop exponentially. The task of a future editor attempting to get a comprehensive neurochemical handbook for the year 2000 would be even less enviable, but by then information processing may be very different. The approach, the design, and the areas covered by each volume and each chapter are necessarily arbitrary, and it is likely that other editors or authors would have approached the coverage or the organization in a different manner. It is hoped, however, that readers will find the series helpful for beginning or for continuing work. There may be some overlap among the various chapters, but insisting on single coverage of an area would at times have restricted treatment to only one point of view and might have truncated and hurt the logical flow of some of the chapters. |
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Acad accumulation Acta activity amines amino acids ammonia anion aspartate astrocytes axon axoplasm binding Biochem Biol Biophys biopterin Boulton Brain Res brain slices Ca² Ca2+ concentration Ca2+-ATPase Calcium calmodulin cation transport caudate nucleus cellular Chem Clin cyclic AMP cyclic nucleotides decrease depolarization effect efflux enzyme extracellular space fluid free Ca2+ function GABA content glia glial cells glutamate glutamine HCO3 Hertz human brain increased incubation inhibited inhibitor injection intracellular levels Lond m-TA mammalian membrane metabolic mg/kg Mg2+ mitochondria myelin Na+,K+ pump Natl nerve nervous system Neurochem neurons Neurosci neurotransmitter ng/g ornithine decarboxylase ouabain oxidase p-TA peptides Pharmacol phosphodiesterase phosphorylation Physiol plasma polyamines potential presence Proc protein putrescine rat brain receptor release role Schwann cells Seiler specific spermidine spermine stimulation studies synaptic synaptosomes synthesis Table tissue trace amines values vesicles vitro vivo York µmol/g