Hormones and Synapse

Dr. Litwack has authored 3 textbooks on biochemistry and hormones (one with John Wiley & Sons and 2 with Academic Press/Elsevier) and he has edited more than 70 volumes in the Vitamins & Hormones series (Academic Press/Elsevier); he has edited 14 volumes entitled Biochemical Actions of Hormones (Academica Press); He has edited (with David Kritchevsky) Actions of Hormones on Molecular Processes (Academic Press)

• 1. Evolutionary origins of chemical synapsesSaak V. Ovsepian, Valerie B. O'Leary and Nikolai P. Vesselkin2. Ultrastructural and molecular features of excitatory and glutamatergic synapses. The auditory nerve synapsesMaría E. Rubio 3. Corticotropin releasing factor modulates excitatory synaptic transmissionNeal Joshi, Michael Aree and Daniel Chandler4. Neurotrophin-3 modulates synaptic transmissionElizabeth Hernández-Echeagaray5. Growth hormone (GH) and synaptogenesisCarlos G. Martínez-Moreno and Carlos Arámburo6. Neural sex steroids and hippocampal synaptic plasticityN. Brandt, L. Fester and G.M. Rune7. Sex hormones and proteins involved in brain plasticityIgnacio Camacho-Arroyo, Ana Gabriela Piña-Medina, Claudia Bello-Alvarez and Carmen Janín Zamora-Sánchez8. Synaptic effects of estrogenKate Nicholson, Neil J. MacLusky and Csaba Leranth9. Estrogen receptor signaling through metabotropic glutamate receptorsKellie S. Gross and Paul G. Mermelstein10. Estradiol induces synaptic rearrangementsIvana Grković and Nataša Mitrović11. Stress and remodeling of hippocampal spine synapsesTibor Hajszan12. Brain insulin resistance impairs hippocampal plasticityMatteo Spinelli, Salvatore Fusco and Claudio Grassi13. A potential role for dendritic spines in bisphenol-A induced memory impairments during adolescence and adulthoodMaya Frankfurt, Victoria Luine and Rachel E. Bowman