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An investigation of the manner in which glutamate modifies functions of the neuronal membrane. The contributors examine the hypothesis that the glutamate receptor signal may be processed by arachidonic acid, nitric oxide, Ca 2+ and protein kinases.

1 Diversity and Organization of Excitatory Amino Acid Receptors in the CNS.- 2 Molecular Biology of Glutamate-Gated Channels: Focus on AMPA and Kainate.- 3 From Excitatory Amino Acid Receptors to Long-Term Potentiation: An Insight into the Role of Ca2+.- 4 Evidence that Arachidonic Acid Plays a Role in Long-Term Potentiation.- 5 Glutamate Release by Reversed Glutamate Uptake Is Inhibited by Arachidonic Acid.- 6 Intracellular and Intercellular Messengers Produced by Metabotropic (Qp), AMPA, and NMDA Excitatory Amino Acid Receptors.- 7 Glutamate Receptors, Nitric Oxide, and Cyclic GMP.- 8 Nitric Oxide: A Messenger of Cerebellar Granule Cells.- 9 Protein Dephosphorylation as a Mediator of NMDA Receptor Signal Transduction.- 10 Phosphoinositide-Linked Glutamate Receptors: Prominent Actions in Neurons and Glia.- 11 Neuromodulation of Non-NMDA Class Glutamate Receptor Channels in Hippocampal Neurons.- 12 Regulation of Glial Kainate Receptor Function by Extracellular Ligands and Intracellular Messengers.