The Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors: The Receptors

1 • Subtypes of Glutamate Receptors: Historical Perspectives on Their Pharmacological Differentiation.- 2 • The Topology of Glutamate Receptors: Sorting Through the Domains.- 3 • Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors: Heterogeneity by Posttranscriptional Modifications.- 4 • The Role of Alternative Splicing of the NMDAR1 Receptor Subunit in Synaptic Plasticity.- 5 • Phosphorylation of Non-NMDA Glutamate Receptor Ion Channels: Implications for Synaptic Plasticity and Their Membrane Topology.- 6 • Regulation of NMD A Receptors by Protein Phosphorylation.- 7 • A Map of Non-NMDA Receptor Subunit Expression in the Vertebrate Brain Derived from In Situ Hybridization Histochemistry.- 8 • Developmental Dynamics of Gene Expression for NMDA Receptor Channel.- 9 • Immunocytochemical Localization of Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors (GluRs) in Neural Circuits.- 10 • Functional Properties of Kainate Receptors.- 11 • The Functional Diversity of Native and Recombinant AMPA Receptors.- 12 • Electrophysiologic Characteristics of Heteromeric Recombinant NMDA Receptors: Comparison with Native Receptors.- 13 • Pharmacology of Recombinant NMDA Receptors: Possible Mechanisms for NMDA Receptor Heterogeneity.- 14 • On the Molecular Basis of NMDA Receptor Diversity.

...will be an important reference...Each chapter is worth reading in its entirety, and each provides a solid groundingin the state of research to this point...will help [to] guide us over the next six years. - Journal of Molecular Neuroscience