Description
This text deals with changes in the electrical properties of nerve cells that are necessary for the cells to carry out their assigned functions in the nervous system. It emphasizes ion channels and biochemical mechanisms of protein phosphorylation, since the regulation of the former by the latter is the most thoroughly studied form of neuromodulation. The regulation of intracellular calcium concentration through the activity of specific ion channels is highlighted, since the molecular details of sense processes are becoming clear. Bridging neurophysiology and neurochemistry, this text will make complex concepts and research approaches comprehensible to scientists in either field. Biochemists; neuroscientists; biophysicists; physiologists.
