Neurotox '91 Molecular Basis of Drug & Pesticide Action - Duce, I.R.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1992)
Section 1 Natural Products -- 1 Philanthotoxin-433 and Analogs, Noncompetitive Antagonists of Glutamate and Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors -- 2 Spider Neurotoxins as Tools for the Investigation of Glutamatergic Synaptic Transmission -- 3 Probing Calcium Channels with Venom Toxins -- 4 Conus Peptides and Biotechnology -- 5 Natural and Synthetic Toxins at Insect Receptors and Ion Channels: The Search for Insecticide Leads and Target Sites -- 6 Avermectins: Idiosyncratic Toxicity in a Subpopulation of Collie Dogs -- Section 2 Molecular and Cellular Physiology of Insects and Nematodes -- 7 The GABA Activated Cl- Channel in Insects as Target for Insecticide Action: A Physiological Study -- 8 Pharmacology of the Ascaris Nervous System -- 9 Chemical Intercellular Signalling Mechanisms in the Nervous System of the Nematode Ascaris suum: Potential Sites of Actions of New Generations of Anthelmintic Drugs -- 10 The Peptidergic Neuron: Possible New Molecular Targets -- Section 3 Applications of Molecular Biology -- 11 Cloning Nematode Acetylcholine Receptor Genes -- 12 The Molecular Biology of Potassium Channels and Mutations that Alter the Selectivity of the Pore -- 13 FMRFamide-Related Peptides: Organisation and Expression of the Gene in the Snail Lymnaea -- 14 Expression of Neurotransmitter Receptors in Insect Cells Using Baculovirus Vectors -- 15 Functional Expression in Xenopus Oocytes of Invertebrate Ligand-Gated Ion Channels -- Section 4 Molecular Structure -- 16 NMR Approaches to Protein Structure and Function -- 17 From Molecular Biology to Molecular Modelling: The Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor -- Section 5 Resistance Mechanisms -- 18 Mechanisms of Resistance to Pyrethroids and DDT in a Japanese Strain of the Housefly -- 19 Isolation of Insect Genes Coding for Voltage-Sensitive Sodium Channels and Ligand-Gated Chloride Channels by PCR-Based Homology Probing -- 20 Cloning of an Invertebrate GAB A Receptor from the Cyclodiene Resistance Locus in Drosophila -- Section 6 Neuronal Networks and Behaviour -- 21 Integration in Neuronal Networks that Control Movement -- 22 Neuromodulation of Small Neural Networks in Crustacea -- 23 Olfaction in Manduca sexta: Cellular Mechanisms of Responses to Sex Pheromone -- 24 Molecular Determinants of Pheromone Activity -- Epilogue: P. N. R. Usherwood -- Author Index.
Keywords: Neurosciences; Pharmacology; Neurology .; Neurosciences; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Neurology