The Physiology of Synapses
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
1964.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-64950-9 |
Table of Contents:
- I. The development of ideas on the synapse
- II. Structural features of chemically transmitting synapses
- III. Physiological properties of chemically transmitting synapses in the resting state
- IV. Excitatory postsynaptic responses to presynaptic impulses
- V. Excitatory transmitter substances
- VI. The release of transmitter by presynaptic impulses
- VII. The generation of impulses by the excitatory postsynaptic potential and the endplate potential
- VIII. The presynaptic terminals of chemically transmitting synapses
- IX. Excitatory synapses operating by electrical transmission
- X. The postsynaptic electrical events produced by chemically transmitting inhibitory synapses
- XI. The ionic mechanism generating the inhibitory postsynaptic potential
- XII. Inhibitory transmitter substances
- XIII. Pathways responsible for postsynaptic inhibitory action
- XIV. Inhibitory synapses operating by electrical transmission
- XV. Presynaptic inhibition
- XVI. The trophic and plastic properties of synapses
- Epilogue
- References.