**Meet the editor**

Thomas Heinbockel, Ph.D., is currently Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Anatomy, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA. His laboratory engages in multidisciplinary research to elucidate organizational principles of neural systems in the brain, specifically the limbic and olfactory system. His research has been

directed at understanding brain mechanisms of information processing and their relation to neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. Dr. Heinbockel studied biology at the Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany. His studies of the brain started during his M.S. thesis work at the Max-Planck-Institute for Behavioral Physiology, Starnberg/Seewiesen, Germany. Subsequently, he completed a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA. After graduating, he held a Research Associate position at the Institute of Physiology, Otto-von-Guericke-University School of Medicine, Magdeburg, Germany. Prior to his arrival at Howard University, Dr. Heinbockel held joint research faculty appointments in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, and the Department of Physiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Transport 3**

**Section 1 Neural Membranes and Intracellular Signaling 1**

Donald W. Miller and Grant M. Hatch

Christian Harteneck and Kristina Leuner

Fortalezas and Alejandro K. Samhan-Arias

**Section 2 Neural Processing and Intercellular Signaling 111**

Chapter 5 **Synaptic Soluble and Membrane-Bound Choline**

E.I. Zakharova and A.M. Dudchenko

Chapter 6 **Neurochemical Communication: The Case of**

**Endocannabinoids 179** Thomas Heinbockel

**and In Vivo 143**

Chapter 4 **Peptide and Protein Neurotoxin Toolbox in Research on Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors 113** Victor Tsetlin and Igor Kasheverov

**Space and Time Fluctuations 59**

Chapter 1 **The Blood Brain Barrier — Regulation of Fatty Acid and Drug**

Chapter 2 **TRP Channels in Neuronal and Glial Signal Transduction 37**

Chapter 3 **Cytosolic Calcium Homeostasis in Neurons — Control Systems,**

Carlos Gutierrez-Merino, Dorinda Marques-da-Silva, Sofia

Siddhartha Dalvi, Ngoc On, Hieu Nguyen, Michael Pogorzelec,

**Modulation by Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species, and**

**Acetyltransferase as a Marker of Cholinergic Function In Vitro**
