Neurobiology has undergone a revolution with many advances dependent o n new techniques and approaches. This fully updated second edition ref lects the recent growth areas in this subject. Its major themes are th e fractionation and study of cellular and subcellular components of th e nervous system, chemical neuroanatomy, and the measurement of neuron al metabolism in vivo and in vitro. Topics include the neuronal cytosk eleton; isolation of synaptosomes and their subcellular components; as pects of mitochondrial defects in neurones; and synaptic transport pro cesses exemplified by the GABA...

Miranda knows nothing of any other life but that of her own of hardship and misery. She knows nothing of the monsters that lurk in the shadows, watching and waiting silently in the darkness to prey on the weak and vunarible. She knows nothing of the life that awaits her, until she comes face to face with one such monster. Suddenly the life she knew is over and she is cast into an unbelievable and unimaginable world where human lives mean nothing.....where she is forced to kill merely to survive. Brought home to a place she doesn't know, to live amongst the monsters she never knew existed-to...