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 synapses

Saak V. Ovsepian, Valerie B. O'Leary and Nikolai P. Vesselkin

2. Ultrastructural and molecular features of excitatory and glutamatergic synapses. The auditory nerve synapses

María E. Rubio

3. Corticotropin releasing factor modulates excitatory synaptic transmission

Neal Joshi, Michael Aree and Daniel Chandler

4. Neurotrophin-3 modulates synaptic transmission

Elizabeth Hernández-Echeagaray

5. Growth hormone (GH) and synaptogenesis

Carlos G. Martínez-Moreno and Carlos Arámburo

6. Neural sex steroids and hippocampal synaptic plasticity

N. Brandt, L. Fester and G.M. Rune

7. Sex hormones and proteins involved in brain plasticity

Ignacio Camacho-Arroyo, Ana Gabriela Piña-Medina, Claudia Bello-Alvarez and Carmen Janín Zamora-Sánchez

8. Synaptic effects of estrogen

Kate Nicholson, Neil J. MacLusky and Csaba Leranth

9. Estrogen receptor signaling through metabotropic glutamate receptors

Kellie S. Gross and Paul G. Mermelstein

10. Estradiol induces synaptic rearrangements

Ivana Grkovic and Nataša Mitrovic

11. Stress and remodeling of hippocampal spine synapses

Tibor Hajszan

12. Brain insulin resistance impairs hippocampal plasticity

Matteo Spinelli, Salvatore Fusco and Claudio Grassi

13. A potential role for dendritic spines in bisphenol-A induced memory impairments during adolescence and adulthood

Maya Frankfurt, Victoria Luine and Rachel E. Bowman