Bioelectrochemistry IV : nerve muscle function : bioelectrochemistry, mechanisms, bioenergetics, and control /

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Imprint:New York : Plenum Press, c1994.
Description:x, 376 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:NATO ASI series. Series A, Life sciences v. 267
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1676780
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Other title:Bioelectrochemistry 4.
Bioelectrochemistry four.
Other authors / contributors:Melandri, Bruno Andrea
Milazzo, Giulio
Blank, Martin, 1933-
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division
International School of Biophysics (20th : 1991 : Erice, Italy)
ISBN:0306448130
Notes:"Proceedings of a Nato Advanced Study Institute, Twentieth Course of the International School of Biophysics on Bioelectrochemistry IV: nerve muscle function--bioelectrochemistry, mechanisms, bioenergetics, and control held October 20-November 1, 1991, in Erice, Italy"--T.p. verso.
"Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • The perspective of bioelectrochemistry / Martin Blank
  • Calcium homeostasis in skeletal muscle / Eduardo Rios
  • Calcium ion fluxes across plasma membranes / Guy Vassort
  • Calcium fluxes and distribution in neurons / Riccardo Fesce and Daniele Zacchetti
  • Biochemical aspects of presynaptic function / Flavia Valtorta, Fabio Benfenati, Numa Iezzi and Martin Bahler
  • Various types of acetylcholine release from the motor nerve / Stephen Thesleff
  • Biophysical aspects of presynaptic activity / Riccardo Fesce
  • Low molecular weight neurotransmitters / Monika Z. Wrona and Glenn Dryhurst
  • Experimental techniques to measure low molecular weight neurotransmitters and their precursors and metabolites / Glenn Dryhurst
  • The electrochemical signal transmission by the acetylcholine receptor: single channel conductance events and oligochannels / Eberhard Neumann and Theo Schurholz
  • Nervous control of cardiac function: modulation of pacemaker activity / Dario Di Francesco
  • Excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle / Eduardo Rios, Adom Gonzales, Miloslav Karhanek, Jianjie Ma, Roman Shirokov, Gonzalo Pizzarro, Laszlo Csernoch, Robert Fitts, Ismael Uribe and M. Marlene Hosey
  • Molecular biology of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca[superscript 2+] channels / Francesco Zorzato
  • Contractile protein isoforms in sarcomeric muscle: distribution, function and control of gene expression / Stefano Schiaffino and Paolo Moretti
  • Bioenergetics of muscle contraction / Joseph Tigyi
  • Thermodynamics of irreversible processes applied to biological systems: a general survey / Dieter Walz
  • Thermodynamics of irreversible processes applied to biological systems: selected examples / Dieter Walz.