Synaptic Plasticity and Transsynaptic Signaling focuses on one component of synaptic plasticity called transsynaptic signaling, or communication of synapses during their formation.

This volume includes chapters that consider the importance of neuromodulatory transmitters such as norepinephrine, histamine and acetylcholine in regulating long-term activity-dependent synaptic plasticity, and how these modulators regulate memory formation.

Contents

1. The Three Faces of Norepinephrine: Plasticity at the Perforant Path-Dentate Gyrus Synapse
2. The Histaminergic System in the Brain: Memory and Synaptic Plasticity
3. Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity of Rat Hippocampal and Cortical Synapses and Control by Muscarinic Transmission
4. Hydrogen Peroxide Regulates Metaplasticity in the Hippocampus
5. Neuronal Plasticity and Seizure Spread in the Entorhinal Cortex and Hippocampus of Amygdala Kindled Rats
6. Presynaptic Ionotropic Gaba Receptors: A Homeostatic Feedback Mechanism at Axon Terminals of Inhibitory Interneurons
7. Activity Dependent Regulation of the CI^- Transporting System in Neurons
8. The Truth About Mossy Fiber Long-Term Potentiation
9. The Gluzinergic Synapse: Who's Talking and Who's Listening?
10. Zinc Dyshomeostasis in Neuronal Injury
11. BDNF as a Trigger for Transsynaptic Consolidation in the Adult Brain
12. On the Role of Neurotrophins in Dendritic Calcium Signaling: Implications for Hippocampal Transsynaptic Plasticity
13. Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) and the Dentate Gyrus Mossy Fibers: Implications for Epilepsy
14. Transsynaptic Dialogue Between Excitatory and Inhibitory Hippocampal Synapses via Endocannabinoids
15. Talking Back: Endocannabinoid Retrograde Signaling Adjusts Synaptic Efficacy
16. Synaptic Vesicle Recycling as a Substrate for Neural Plasticity
17. Retrograde Messengers in Long-Term Plasticity of Presynaptic Glutamate Release in Hippocampus
18. Hippocampal Long-Term Depression as a Declarative Memory Mechanism
19. NMDA Receptors: From Protein-Protein Interactions to Transactivation
20. The Phases of LTP: The New Complexities
21. CREB: A Cornerstone of Memory Consolidation?
22. Synaptic Plasticity in the Central Nervous System: A Role for Calcium-Regulated Adenylyl Cyclases
23. Rapid Nuclear Responses to Action Potentials
24. Synaptic Dialogue: Substrate for Protein-Synthesis-Independent Long-Term Memory
25. Coordinated Pre- and Postsynaptic Changes Involved in Developmental Activity-Dependent Synapse Elimination
26. Recent Advances in the Role of Integrins in Developmental and Adult Synaptic Plasticity
27. Consolidation: A View from the Synapse
28. Morphological Plasticity of the Synapse: Interactions of Structure and Function
29. Role of the Spine Apparatus in Synaptic Plasticity
30. Amyloid-β as a Biologically Active Peptide in CNS

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