Book Description:
Biogenic amines are naturally occurring amines that are derived by enzymic decarboxylation of the natural amino acids. They belong to a class of neurotransmitters including catecholamines (dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine), indolamine (serotonin), and imidazoleamine (histamine). Biogenic amines have great pharmacological and physiological importance. The main objective of this book is to present readers with comprehensive information on pharmacology, neurochemistry and molecular neurobiology of biogenic amine in the CNS of vertebrate and invertebrates in a single volume text. The book has been organized into chapters and sections to provide a better flow of information. Furthermore, this unique volume provides its readers with cutting edge information on biogenic amines. It can be used by graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, researchers, and scientists who work at the pharmaceutical industry as a handbook, which describes all aspects of biogenic amine metabolism.

Table of Contents:
Dedication:
Foreword
Preface:
Acknowledgments

I. Biogenic Amines in Vertebrate System
Chapter I. Biogenic Amines: A Historical Perspective, pp.3-12
(Michael Gerald)

Chapter II. Life’s Requirements for Catecholamines, pp.13-24
(Suzanne Roffler-Tarlov)

Chapter III. Aromatic L-amino Acid Decarboxylase, pp.25-46
(Maria Hadjiconstantinou, Anne-Marie Duchemin, Abul Azad, and Norton H. Neff)

Chapter IV. Striatal Dopamine Storage and Utilization, pp.47-70
(Lane J. Wallace)

Chapter V. The Importance of Monoamine Transporters in the Development of Psychopharmacology, pp.71-80
(Leslie Iversen )

Chapter VI. Amine False Transmitters and Volume Transmission: Fifty Years of Exceptions, pp.81-112
(Robert Snodgrass)

Chapter VII. Pharmacological Approaches for the Evaluation of Drug-Receptor Related Events, pp.113-154
(Norman J Uretsky, Margarita Salazar and Popat N. Patil)

Chapter VIII. What Has 6-Hydroxydopamine Taught Us About Parkinson’s Disease?, pp.155-176
(Michael J. Zigmond)

Chapter IX. The Molecular and Genetic Basis of Parkinson Disease, pp.177-218
(Tahira Farooqui)

Chapter X. Modulation of Neurotransmission Signaling by Neural Membrane Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids, pp.219-246
(Akhlaq A. Farooqui)

Chapter XI. Estrogen-Dopamine Interactions in Forebrain Modulation of the Sensorimotor Gating, pp.247-264
(John J. Byrnes, Jacqueline T. Draper and Elizabeth M. Byrnes)

Chapter XII. Stereoselectivity of Norepinephrine Enantiomers at Pre and Post- Junctional Adrenoceptors, pp.265-278
(Vandana Kumari, M. B. Farah, S. Z. Langer, Chenglong Li and Popat N. Patil)

Chapter XIII. Trace amines and Their Receptors Comprise a Novel Vertebrate Aminergic Signalling System, pp.279-302
(Mark D. Berry, Jarrod Nickel and Bruno Tomberli)

II. Biogenic Amines in Invertebrate System, pp.303-304
Chapter XIV. Quantification of Octopamine in Invertebrate and Vertebrate Nervous Systems, pp.305-334
(Tahira Farooqui)

Chapter XV. Pharmacology of invertebrate octopamine and tyramine receptors, pp.335-246
(Thomas Roeder)

Chapter XVI. The Cellular and Molecular Biology of Octopaminergic Neurons, pp.347-370
(Herman K. Lehman)

Chapter XVII. Perspective and Future Developments on Biogenic Amines in the CNS, pp.371-386
(Tahira Farooqui and Akhlaq Farooqui)

Index