Excitatory Amino Acid Receptors: Design of Agonists and Antagonists Book

	Preface	7
	Abbreviations of names of compounds	9
1	Excitatory amino acids, excitotoxicity and neurodegenerative disorders	13
2	Excitatory amino acid receptors: multiplicity and ligand selectivity of receptor subtypes	34
3	Isolation and structural characterization of excitatory amino acid receptors	56
4	Electrophysiological techniques for the study of excitatory amino acids in mammalian neurons in slice preparations	86
5	Receptor autoradiography of excitatory amino acid receptors: basic and clinical aspects	101
6	NMDA receptors: heterogeneity and agonism	121
7	Sulphur-containing excitatory amino acids	162
8	Competitive NMDA receptor antagonists	183
9	Ligands for NMDA receptor modulatory sites	201
10	AMPA receptor agonists: structural, conformational and stereochemical aspects	216
11	Quinoxalinediones as AMPA receptor antagonists: mechanism and structure-activity studies	246
12	Kainic acid receptor agonists	261
13	Polyamine toxins as excitatory amino acid receptor ligands	292
14	L-AP4 receptor ligands	308
15	The quisqualate metabotropic receptor coupled to phospholipase C(Qp)	331
16	Therapeutic opportunities in modulators of excitatory amino acid-mediated neurotransmission	352
	Index	376