Dendrites: Development and Disease

by Kazuo Emoto (Editor), Rachel Wong (Editor), Eric Huang (Editor)

Part 1 Introduction.- 1 Introduction.- Part 2 Basic biology of dendrites.- 2 Cytoskeletal organization - actin.- 3 Cytoskeletal organization - microtubules.- 4 Membrane trafficking -endo/exocytosis.- 5 Synapse to nucleus signaling.- 6 Ultrastructural methods.- 7 Bioimaging of dendritic signaling.- Part 3 Patterning dendritic architecture of neurons and their populations.- 8 Self-avoidance.- 9 Dendritic tiling.- 10 Mosaics and lamination.- 11 Modifying dendritic structure after function.- Part 4 Cellular and molecular control of dendrite development and maintenance.- 12 Molecular control of dendrite development.- 13 Sensory-dependent regulation of dendritic morphology.- 14 Dendrite maintenance.- Part 5 Synapse formation onto dendrites.- 15 Molecular assembly of excitatory synapses.- 16 Localizing receptors and channels across the dendritic arbor.- 17 Synaptic adhesion molecules.- 18 Balancing excitatory and inhibitory inputs.- 19 Assembly and reassembly of synapses.- Part 6 Dendrites in disease.- 20 Dendrite development in autism and autism-related disorders.- 21 Dendrite degeneration in Frontotemporal dementia.- 22 Dendrite degeneration and Glaucoma.

618 pages, Paperback

Published August 24, 2016

About the author

Kazuo Emoto: Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan