This book reviews the recent advances in our understanding of the molecular and cellular mechanisms that control the assembly, transport, targeting and anchoring of the protein complexes making up the most important ion channels and receptor families, fundamental to synaptic function. Improved understanding of these processes is expected to reveal novel therapeutic targets relevant to a range of disease states. Receptor and Ion-Channel Trafficking provides an integrated overview of the significant recent advances in the field of molecular neurobiology and will be essential reading for all researchers in neuroscience, neurobiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology.

Ion Channels
1: Malik-Hall, Wood & Okuse: Voltage-gated sodium channels
2: Tinker: The assembly and targeting of potassium channels
3: Dolphin: Assembly and targeting of voltage-dependent calcium channels
Acetylcholine Receptors
4: Swope: Targeting of acetylcholine receptors to the postsynaptic endplate of the nerve-muscle synapse
5: Millar: Assembly and targeting of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
Amino Acid Receptors
6: Stricker & Huganir: AMPA/kainate receptors
7: Hering & Sheng: NMDA receptor targeting
8: Harvey, von der Nuell & Harvey: Structure, assembly and targeting of glycine receptors
9: Lüscher: GABAA and GABAC receptors: regulation of assembly, localization, clustering and turnover

Edited by Stephen J. Moss , MRC-LMCB & Department of Pharmacology, University College London, UK

Jeremy Henley , MRC Centre for Synaptic Plasticity, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK