Table of Contents:
  • General and electrophysiological characteristics of receptors
  • Purification and regulation of receptors
  • Monoamine receptors
  • Benzodiazepine and GABA receptors
  • Opioid and neuroendocrine receptors
  • Receptor alterations in aging and disease.
  • Molecular interactions of Torpedo Calfornica acetylcholine receptor in a highly purified membrane-bound form / Michael A. Raftery, Janet Elliott, Hsiao-Ping Moore, Paul Hartig, and Wilson C.-S. Wu
  • Neuroreceptors: an overview / Richard J. Miller and Glyn Dawson
  • The reversal potential as a diagnostic tool in transmitter identification / Robert Werman
  • Association between enveloped viruses and host cell membranes: a specific case of ligand receptor interaction / A. Loyter, D. Ginsberg, D.J. Volsky, Y. Laster, and N. Zakai
  • Relationship between phospholipids and receptors / Giuseppe Arienti and Giuseppe Porcellati
  • Histochemistry of receptors / W. Scott Young III, Jose M. Palacios, and Michael J. Kuhar
  • Receptors, innervation, and neurotransmitter release: microphysiology of chemical synapses / Alfredo Gorio
  • Competitive block and ion channel block as mechanisms of antagonist action on the skeletal muscle end-plate / D. Colquhoun.
  • Electrophysiological studies of the mode of action of GABA on vertebrate central neurons / A. Nistri, A. Constanti, and K. Krnjevic
  • Regulation of [beta]-andrenergic receptors by phospholipid methylation / Fusao Hirata, John F. Tallman, Jr., Richard C. Henneberry, Pierre Mallorga, Warren J. Strittmatter, and Julius Axelrod
  • Supersensitivity in peripheral organs / U. Trendelenburg
  • Modulation of the binding properties of muscarinic receptors: evidence for receptor-effector coupling / N.J.M. Birdsall, C.P Berrie, A.S.V. Burgen, and E.C. Hulme
  • Regulation of acetylcholine receptor phosphorylation / Adrienne S. Gordon and Ivan Diamond
  • Effect of calmodulin on catecholamine-linked adenylate cyclase activity in rat striatum and cerebral cortex / M.E. Gnegy, T. Hultin, and G. Treisman.
  • GABA-modulin: a regulatory protein for GABA receptors / G. Toffano, A. Leon, M. Massotti, A. Guidotti, and E. Costa
  • [beta]-adrenergic receptors from frog erythrocytes: receptor internalization as a mechanism for receptor desensitization / De-Maw Chuang, Len Farber, William J. Kinnier, and Erminio Costa
  • Affinity chromatography of the [beta]-adrenergic receptor and characterization of antibodies raised against purified receptor preparations / Marc G. Caron, Yogambal Srinivasan, and Robert J. Lefkowitz / Dopamine receptor: isolation, purification, and regulation / Yvonne C. Clement-Cormier
  • Histamine receptors in the brain: characterization by binding studies and biochemical effects / J.C. Schwartz, G. Barbin, A.M. Duchemin, M. Garbarg, J.M. Palacios, T.T. Quach, and C. Rose
  • One agonist and two receptors mediating the same effect: histamine receptors linked to adenylate cyclase in the brain / Lindsay B. Hough, Harel Weinstein, and Jack Peter Green
  • Further evidence for the existence of multiple receptors for dopamine in the central nervous system / L.L. Iversen, M. Quik, P.C. Emson, J.E. Dowling, and K.J. Watling
  • Regulation of neurotransmission through presynaptic receptors and other mechanisms: possible clinical relevance and therapeutic potential / S.Z. Langer, M.S. Briley, and R. Raisman
  • Characterization and differential in vivo regulation of brain adrenergic receptor subtypes / David C. U'Prichard, Henry I. Yamamura, and Terry D. Reisine.
  • Multiple receptors for serotonin in the rat brain / M. Hamon, D.L. Nelson, A. Herbet, and J. Glowinski
  • Central nervous system dopamine receptors / Ian Creese
  • Detection of multiple receptors for dopamine / P.F. Spano, M. Memo, E. Stefanini, P. Fresia, and M. Trabucchi
  • Drug-induced alterations in neurotransmitter receptor binding and function / S.J. Enna, J.W. Ferkany, and R. Strong
  • Differential effects of kainic acid on benzodiazepine receptors, GABA receptors, and GABA-modulin in the cerebellar cortex / G. Biggio, M.G. Corda, G. De Montis, and G.L. Gessa
  • Pharmacological and biochemical evidence for an interaction between the benzodiazepine and GABA receptors / A. Guidotti
  • Studies on benzodiazepine receptors / John F. Tallman, Dorothy W. Gallager, Pierre Mallorga, John W. Thomas, Warren Strittmatter, Fusao Hirata, and Julius Axelrod
  • Multiple benzodiazepine receptor complexes: some benzodiazepine recognition sites are coupled to GABA receptors and ionophores / Richard F. Squires, Claire A. Klepner, and Donald I. Benson
  • Benzodiazepine receptor: localization by photoaffinity labeling and isolation of a possible endogenous ligand / H. Mohler, M.K. Battersby, J.G. Richards, P. Polc, R. Cumin, L. Pieri, and R. Kettler
  • Two or more conformations of benzodiazepine receptors depending on GABA receptors and other variables / Claus Braestrup, Mogens Nielsen, Povl Krogsgaard-Larsen, and Erik Falch.
  • Characterization of GABA-stimulated benzodiazepine receptor binding / Manfred Karobath, Peter Placheta, Margit Lippitsch, and Povl Krogsgaard-Larsen
  • Opiate receptors: problems of definition and characterizatin / L. Terenius
  • Some aspects of opiate receptors / A. Herz, R. Schulz, and M. Wuster
  • Receptor-mediated inhibitions of NG108-15 adenylate cyclase: essential role of Na+ and GTP / A.J. Blume, D. Lichtshtein, and G. Boone
  • Development of monoclonal antibody against a neuroactive peptide: immunocytochemical applications / A.C. Cuello, G. Galfre, and G. Milstein
  • Localizing peptides in the central nervous system: a progress report / Michael J. Brownstein
  • Significance of neuropeptides in the control of corticosterone receptor activity in rat brain / Ronald de Kloet, Dick Veldhuis, and Bela Bohus
  • Steroid hormone receptors, brain cell function, and the neuroendocrine system / Bruce S. McEwen, Paula G. Davis, P.H. Jellinck, Lewis C. Krey, Ivan Lieberburg, Victoria N. Luine, Neil J. MacLusky, Bruce Parsons, and Edward J. Roy
  • Brain glucocoriticoid receptor: correlation of in vivo uptake of corticosterone with behavioral, endocrine, and neuropharmacological events / L. Angelucci, P. Valeri, M. Palmery, F.R. Patacchioli, and A. Catalini
  • On the presence of receptors for ACTH neuropeptides in the brain / A. Witter
  • Neurotransmitter receptors in the amygdala, and their role in the control of anterior pituitary function / L. Martini and F. Piva.
  • Brain monoamine changes in chronic paranoid schizophrenia and their possible relation to increased dopamine receptor sensitivity / Irene J. Farley, Kathleen S. Shannak, and Oleh Hornykiewicz
  • Abnormal neuroleptic/dopamine receptors in schizophrenia / Tyrone Lee and Philip Seeman
  • Opiate and neuroleptic receptor alterations in human schizophrenic brain tissue / T.D. Reisine, M. Rosser, E. Spokes, L.L. Iversen, and H.I. Yamamura
  • GABA receptor binding and endogenous inhibitors in normal human brain and Huntington's disease / Richard W. Olsen, Paul Van Ness, Christian Napias, Mark Bergman, and W.W. Tourtellotte
  • Denervation supersensitivity and [beta]-adrenergic receptors as a functin of age / Benjamin Weiss, Louise H. Greenberg, and Elinor Cantor
  • Myasthenia Gravis: an example of receptor disease / B.M. Conti-Tronconi, G. Fumagalli, A. Scotti, A. Brigonzi, E. Sher, M. Morgutti, and F. Clementi
  • Receptos for insulin and insulin-like growth factors in disease / Matthew M. Rechler, Ellen E. Schilling, George S. King, Franco Fraioli, Alan M. Rosenberg, Olga Z. Higa, Judy M. Podskalny, Carl Grunfeld, S. Peter Nissley, and C. Ronald Kahn
  • Regulation of rat liver plasma membrane and intracellular insulin binding sites during diabetes, liver regeneration, and hyperinsulinism: radiolabeled hormone binding and electron microsocpic autoradiograph studies / R. Vigneri, V. Pezzino, D. Cohen, N.B. Pliam, K.Y. Wong, G. Hradek, A.L. Jones, and I.D. Goldfine.