Receptors in the Developing Nervous System: Volume 1 Growth Factors and Hormones

ISBN-13: 9789401046725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 252 str.

Zagon;McLaughlin

Opis

This volume provides a thorough review of receptors in the developing nervous system, focusing on those related to growth factors and hormones. It puts basic and clinical information into perspective and points to possible areas for future research. The authors take a contemporary approach emphasizing information derived from the application of cell and molecular biology. Volume two discusses receptors related to neurotransmitters. Together the two volumes will provide an invaluable source of reference for researchers and graduate students in a wide range of basic and clinical disciplines.

Spis treści

Introduction: The biology of receptors. Nerve growth factor receptors in the developing nervous system. Opioid growth factor receptor in the developing nervous system. Transferrin and the developing nervous system. Ontogenic profile of epidermal growth factor receptors in rat brain. Somatostatin receptors in the developing nervous system. Developmental regulation of the insulin and insulin-like growth factor receptors in the central nervous system. Thyroid receptors in the developing nervous system. Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) receptors and the developing nervous system. Corticosteroid receptors in the rat brain and pituitary during development and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) function. Estrogen receptors and the developing nervous system. Vasopressin and oxytocin receptors and the developing brain.