Publisher's Synopsis
This volume discusses the topics from a symposium at the Royal Society in London on 22-24 October 1990. The symposium on which this volume is based was intended to present the main advances in the field of excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission and to understand these processes better.;The main features include GABA receptors - structure and function, allosteric modulation of GABA receptors, mitochondrial benzodiazepine receptors, neurosteroids and chloride channels, new GABA-ergic drugs and endogenous benzodiazepines, excitatory amino acid receptors - structure and signal transduction, excitatory amino acids - long-term potentiation and neurotoxicity, glycine receptors and glycine binding sites on NMDA receptors.
