Main description:

Diversity and Functions of GABA Receptors: A Tribute to Hanns Moehler, Part B, a new volume of Advances in Pharmacology, presents the diversity and functions of GABA Receptors. The volume looks at research performed in the past 20 years, which has revealed specific physiological and pharmacological functions of individual GABAA receptor subtypes, providing novel opportunities for drug development.

Contents:

1. Reflections on more than 30 years Association with Hanns
Norman G. Bowery
2. Significance of GABAA Receptor Heterogeneity: Clues from Developing Neurons
Jean-Marc Fritschy
3. Regulation of Cell Surface GABAB Receptors: Contribution to Synaptic Plasticity in Neurological Diseases
Dietmar Benke, Karthik Balakrishnan and Khaled Zemoura
4. Restoring the Spinal Pain Gate: GABAA Receptors as Targets for Novel Analgesics
Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer, William T. Ralvenius and Mario A. Acuna
5. GABAergic Control of Depression-related Brain States
Bernhard Luscher and Thomas Fuchs
6. Mechanisms of Fast Desensitization of GABAB Receptor-Gated Currents
Adi Raveh, Rostislav Turecek and Bernhard Bettler
7. Allosteric Ligands and their Binding Sites Define ?-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) Type A Receptor Subtypes
Richard W. Olsen
8. Diversity in GABAergic Signaling
Kaspar Vogt
9. The Diversity of GABAA Receptor Subunit Distribution in the Normal and Huntington's Disease Human Brain
HJ Waldvogel and RLM Faull