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Comparative Molecular Neurobiology

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  • © 1993

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Editors:
  1. Yves Pichon

    1. Equipe de Neurobiologie, C.N.R.S.-Université de Rennes I, Rennes Cedex, France

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Part of the book series: Experientia Supplementum (EXS, volume 63)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  3. Ligand-gated ion channels

    1. Molluscan ligand-gated ion-channel receptors

      • Mark G. Darlison, Michael L. Hutton, Robert J. Harvey
      Pages 48-64

    2. Acetylcholine receptor molecules of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

      • J. T. Fleming, C. Tornoe, H. A. Riina, J. Coadwell, J. A. Lewis, D. B. Sattelle
      Pages 65-80

    3. Acetylcholine receptor/channel molecules of insects

      • C. A. Leech, D. B. Sattelle
      Pages 81-97

    4. Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in invertebrates: Comparisons with homologous receptors from vertebrates

      • Frances Hannan, Linda M. Hall
      Pages 98-145

    5. Pharmacology of the GABA receptor of insect central neurones in culture: A patch-clamp study

      • Alison Taylor, Isabel Bermudez, David J. Beadle
      Pages 146-171

    6. GABA Receptor molecules of insects

      • N. M. Anthony, J. B. Harrison, D. B. Sattelle
      Pages 172-209

    7. Cloning of a putative GABAA receptor from cyclodiene-resistant Drosophila: A case study in the use of insecticide-resistant mutants to isolate neuroreceptors

      • R. H. ffrench-Constant
      Pages 210-223

    8. Molecular biology of excitatory amino acid receptors: Subtypes and subunits

      • Pascal Bochet, Jean Rossier
      Pages 224-233

    9. Molecular analysis of Drosophila glutamate receptors

      • Christoph M. Schuster, Andreas Ultsch, Bertram Schmitt, Heinrich Betz
      Pages 234-240

    10. Channels formed by M2 peptides of a putative glutamate receptor subunit of locust

      • P. N. R. Usherwood, I. Mellor, L. Breedon, Robert J. Harvey, Eric A. Barnard, Mark G. Darlison
      Pages 241-249

    11. Single channel properties at the synaptic site

      • Hugh P. C. Robinson, Nobufumi Kawai
      Pages 250-265

  5. Voltage-gated ion channels

    1. Molecular basis of K+ channel inactivation gating

      • Ehud Y. Isacoff, Yuh Nung Jan, Lily Yeh Jan
      Pages 338-351

    2. Potassium conductance and potassium channels in a primitive insect: The cockroach Periplaneta americana

      • Muriel Amar, Yves Pichon
      Pages 352-365
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About this book

It is generally accepted that all living organisms present on earth derive from one single primordial cell born several billion years ago. One important step in the evolution occurred some 1. 5 billion years ago with the transition from small procaryote cells with relatively simple internal structures such as bacteria to larger and more compleX: eucaryotic cells such as those found in higher animals and plants. Large membrane proteins which enable the cells to communicate appeared early in evolution, and it is believed that the nerve membrane receptors and ionic channels which are observed today in both invertebrate and vertebrate species derive from a common ancestor. Basically, the three identified superfamilies, 1) ionotropic receptors (i. e. receptors containing an integral ionic channel), 2) metabotropic receptors (receptors coupled to G­ proteins) and 3) voltage-dependent ionic channels (Na+, K + and Ca2+ channels) were already well differentiated when vertebrates separated from invertebrate species. The large number of subtypes which are observed in each superfamily may be of more recent evolutionary origin. To understand how this happened, the best approach was to compare the sequences and the properties of the receptors and ionic channels in species sufficiently distant in the evolutionary tree. In the present volume, many of the best specialists in the field of comparative molecular neurobiology, several of them working on vertebrate and invertebrate species, have accepted to report their most recent findings.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Equipe de Neurobiologie, C.N.R.S.-Université de Rennes I, Rennes Cedex, France

    Yves Pichon

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Comparative Molecular Neurobiology

  • Editors: Yves Pichon

  • Series Title: Experientia Supplementum

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-7265-2

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Verlag 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-7267-6Published: 18 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-7265-2Published: 08 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1664-431X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2504-3692

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 436

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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