Chemical and Cellular Architecture

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Cation Transport

   • László Latzkovits, Csaba Fajszi

   Pages 1-30

3. Anion Transport in the Nervous System

   • H. K. Kimelberg, R. S. Bourke

   Pages 31-67

4. Calcium in the Nerve Cell

   • Arsélio P. Carvalho

   Pages 69-116

5. Ammonia

   • A. M. Benjamin

   Pages 117-137

6. Water Spaces

   • Hanna M. Pappius

   Pages 139-149

7. Cerebral Amino Acid Pools

   • Thomas L. Perry

   Pages 151-180

8. Neuropeptides

   • M. J. Brownstein, H. Gainer

   Pages 181-188

9. Brain Trace Amines

   • Alan A. Boulton, Augusto V. Juorio

   Pages 189-222

10. Polyamines

    • N. Seiler

    Pages 223-255

11. Cyclic Nucleotides in the Central Nervous System

    • Kenneth A. Bonnet

    Pages 257-280

12. Biopterin

    • E. Martin Gál

    Pages 281-298

13. Neurons

    • Bert Csillik

    Pages 299-317

14. Astrocytes

    • L. Hertz

    Pages 319-355

15. Oligodendrocytes

    • Leonid Pevzner

    Pages 357-395

16. The Schwann Cell

    • Robert M. Gould, Dan Matsumoto, Gary Mattingly

    Pages 397-414

17. Physiological Neurochemistry of Cerebrospinal Fluid

    • James H. Wood

    Pages 415-487

18. Back Matter

    Pages 489-496

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After the completion of the first edition of this series, this editor thought that a new edition would not be warranted in less than IS, perhaps 20, years, but it seems that we live in a time in which rapid changes are the norm and findings in a field such as neurochemistry develop exponentially. The task of a future editor attempting to get a comprehensive neurochemical handbook for the year 2000 would be even less enviable, but by then information processing may be very different. The approach, the design, and the areas covered by each volume and each chapter are necessarily arbitrary, and it is likely that other editors or authors would have approached the coverage or the organization in a different manner. It is hoped, however, that readers will find the series helpful for beginning or for continuing work. There may be some overlap among the various chapters, but insisting on single coverage of an area would at times have restricted treatment to only one point of view and might have truncated and hurt the logical flow of some of the chapters.

• architecture
• brain
• information
• information processing
• nervous system
• neurochemistry
• neurons
• neuropeptides
• organization
• time

• Center for Neurochemistry, Ward’s Isalnd, USA

  Abel Lajtha

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