Research Catalog

Title

Bioelectrochemistry IV : nerve muscle function : bioelectrochemistry, mechanisms, bioenergetics, and control / edited by Bruno Andrea Melandri, Giulio Milazzo, and Martin Blank.

Publication

New York : Plenum Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Melandri, Bruno Andrea.
• Milazzo, Giulio.
• Blank, Martin, 1933-
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division.
• International School of Biophysics (20th : 1991 : Erice, Italy)

Description

x, 376 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

NATO ASI series. Series A, Life sciences ; v. 267

Uniform Title

NATO ASI series. Series A, Life sciences ; v. 267.

Alternative Title

• Bioelectrochemistry 4.
• Bioelectrochemistry four.

Subject

• Bioelectrochemistry > Congresses
• Electrophysiology > Congresses
• Neuromuscular transmission > Congresses
• Nervous System Physiological Phenomena
• Neuromuscular Junction > physiology
• Muscles > innervation
• Muscles > physiology
• Biochemistry
• Electrochemistry
• Biophysics

Genre/Form

Congress.

Note

• "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."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

0306448130

LCCN

94030805

OCLC

• 30971789
• ocm30971789

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries