Molecular Research and Insight in Neurotransmission and Neuromodulation
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Neurobiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 32
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the past few decades, molecular biology has dramatically improved our understanding of the transfer of information in the central nervous system (CNS). Several intricate details have been clarified about the signaling processes of the connectome with the help of the latest methods in micromorphology, and the expression of the genome and the proteome. This way, not only our understanding of the action of classical neurotransmitters, but also our knowledge about the more complex pathways and effects of neuropeptides, has been greatly broadened and deepened. Therefore, by now it has become clear that the diverse families of neuropeptides represent the most flexible and richest modulatory arsenal of the proteome, not only in the central nervous system, but also in the peripheral nervous system, and they are expressed at almost every level of regulation in different organs.
The present Special Issue endeavors to collect and present some significant achievements in this field of neuroscience. As Guest Editor, I expect submissions that deal with the regulation of diverse CNS processes by classical neurotransmitters, neuropeptides–neuromodulators, and unorthodox (e.g., gaseous) transmitters. We would especially welcome studies which connect the results of the assays of different nervous system functions (autonomic, behavioral, neuroendocrine, sensory, etc.), with the result of state-of-the-art morphologic, micro-anatomic methods (e.g., super-resolution microscopy) or biochemical, molecular biological assays (e.g., RT-PCR, qPCR) and therefore substantiate and verify the regulatory background of the observed functions. Both original research articles and reviews are welcome.
Dr. Miklos Jaszberenyi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- histology
- microanatomy
- morphology
- molecular biology
- neurotransmitter
- neuromodulator
- neuropeptide
- neurohormone
- nervous system
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