Excitatory Amino Acids and Neuronal Plasticity [Paperback]

Proceedings of the European Neuroscience Association Satellite Symposium held in Fillerval, France, August 27-31, 1989Mechanisms and Expression of Receptors.- Glutamate Receptors in Cultures of Mouse Hippocampus Studied with Fast Applications of Agonists, Modulators and Drugs.- Measuring and Controlling the Extracellular Glycine Concentration at the NMDA Receptor Level.- The Glycine Coagonist Site of the NMDA Receptor.- The PCP Site of the NMDA Receptor Complex.- Antagonists of NMDA-Activated Current in Cortical Neurons: Competition with Glycine and Blockade of Open Channels.- Types of EAA Receptors.- Experiments with Kainate and Quisqualate Agonists and Antagonists in Relation to the Sub-Classification of Non-NMDA Receptors.- Homocysteic Acid as Transmitter Candidate in the Mammalian Brain and Excitatory Amino Acids in Epilepsy.- Specific Quisqualate Receptor Ligand Blocks Both Kainate and Quisqualate Responses.- Molecular Characterization, Ultrastructural Localization and Gene Cloning of the Chick Cerebellar Kainate Receptor.- Intracellular Messengers Associated with Excitatory Amino Acid (EAA) Receptors.- The Glycine Site on the NMDA Receptor: Pharmacology and Involvement in NMDA Receptor-Mediated Neurodegeneration.- Evidence for Glutamate Receptor Subtypes from in Vivo Electrophysiology: Studies with HA-966, Quinoxalinediones and Philanthotoxin.- Characterization of Membranal and Purified NMDA Receptors.- Ca++ and Excitatory Amino Acids.- Mechanisms Underlying Excitatory Amino Acid-Evoked Calcium Entry in Cultured Neurons from the Embryonic Rat Spinal Cord.- Topographical Heterogeneity of Glutamate Agonist-Induced Calcium Increase in Hippocampus.- Protection by Natural and Semisynthetic Gangliosides from Ca2+-Dependent Neurotoxicity Caused by Excitatory Amino Acid (EAA) Neurotransmitters.- EAA and in Vivo Development.- Periodic Inward Currents Triggered by NMDA in Immature CA3 Hippocampal Neurones.- GABA Mediated Synaptic Events in Neonatal Rat CA3 Pyramidalls+