Control Mechanisms in the Nervous System: v. 4
Abel Lajtha(Editor)
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Published on 31. December 1995
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Hardback
516 pages
978-0-306-37704-4 (ISBN)
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The explosive accumulation of new knowledge in the biological sciences in the last decades has advanced our understanding of the basic mechanisms that underlie most biological phenomena. These advances, however, have not been uniform but have varied considerably among the different biological problems. In some cases, e.g., biochemical genetics, radical advances have been made which have changed our ideas and our approaches. In other cases, even with work which has yielded much detailed new knowledge, our under- standing of basic mechanisms remains very inadequate. Among the lines of work that have not yet led to dramatic conceptual advances is the problem of control of biological activities. This problem is, of course, basic both to any full understanding of life as a whole, and to any real understanding of its most minute phenomena. Indeed, the myriad of biological activities that we can observe by direct or indirect means are all under the sway of most exquisitely precise mechanisms. Any malfunctioning of these mechanisms has serious consequences, not only for the particular function itself, but for all the related and interlinked activities.
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1970 ed.
Language
English
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United States
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Springer Science+Business Media
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Professional and scholarly
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25 black & white illustrations, biography
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Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
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978-0-306-37704-4 (9780306377044)
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Content
1 Control of Carbohydrate Metabolism.- 2 Nucleoside Triphosphate Phosphohydrolases.- 3 Estimation of Turnover Rates to Study the Metabolic Regulation of the Steady-State Level of Neuronal Monoamines.- 4 Storage and Release of Monoamines in the Central Nervous System.- 5 Amino Acid Transmitters.- 6 Biologically Active Peptides (Substance P).- 7 Biologically Active Lipids.- 8 Histidine Decarboxylase and DOPA Decarboxylase.- 9 Metabolism of Catecholamines.- 10 Histamine.- 11 Serotonin.- 12 Acetylcholine, Choline Acetyltransferase, and Acetylcholinesterase.- 13 Amine Oxidases.- 14 Ion Movement.- 15 Transport of Monosaccharides, Amines, and Certain Other Metabolites.- 16 Insulin Action.- 17 Neurosecretion.- 18 Action of Gonadal Hormones.- 19 Pineal Hormones.- 20 The Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal Complex.