Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- Symposium Guests of Honour -- Symposium activities -- ON DAVID NACHMANSOHN'S RELATIONSHIP TO BERLIN / Herken, H. -- CONTENTS -- David Nachmansohn (1899-1983): a pioneer of neurochemistry / Changeux, Jean-Pierre -- I. THE MOTOR ENDPLATE AND PRESYNAPTIC MECHANISMS -- REMODELLING OF NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTIONS DURING REPAIR OF MUSCLE FIBRES / Couteaux, R. / Mira, J.-C. -- INTERMITTENT, CALCIUM INDEPENDENT RELEASE OF ACETYLCHOLINE FROM MOTOR NERVE TERMINALS / Thesleff, S. -- PROSTAGLANDINS MEDIATE THE MUSCARINIC INHIBITION OF ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE FROM TORPEDO NERVE TERMINALS / Pinchasi, I. / Burstein, M. / Michaelson, D. M. -- MOLECULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE / Israël, M. / Morel, N. / Birman, S. / Lesbats, B. / Manaranche, R. -- ADENOSINE-5'-TRIPHOSPHATE AT THE CHOLINERGIC SYNAPSE: A CO-TRANSMITTER? / Zimmermann, H. / Grondai, E. J. M. -- SOLUBILIZATION, AFFINITY LABELLING AND PURIFICATION OF THE DIHYDROPYRIDINE RECEPTOR OF THE VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT CALCIUM CHANNEL FROM RABBIT SKELETAL MUSCLE TRANSVERSE TUBULE MEMBRANES / Borsotto, M. / Barhanin, J. / Galizzi, J.-P. / Lazdunski, M. -- IS ATP A GENERAL MOLECULAR CONSTITUENT OF CHOLINERGIC SYNAPTIC VESICLES? / Volknandt, W. / Zimmermann, H. -- SINGLE CHANNEL FORMATION OF COOPERATIVELY INTERACTING UNITS OF THE HIGHLY-PURIFIED Na-CHANNEL PROTEIN / Boheim, Günther / Hanke, Wolfgang / Barhanin, Jacques / Pauron, David / Lazdunski, Michel -- K+-CHANNELS IN RAT VENTRICULAR CELLS SHOW VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT OUTWARD RECTIFICATION AND NON-LINEAR VOLTAGE TO CURRENT RELATION / Schreibmayer, W. / Hagauer, H. / Tritthart, H. A. -- A PURIFICATION PROCEDURE OF THE TETRODOTOXIN BINDING COMPONENT CONTAINED IN THE ELECTROPLAXES OF ELECTROPHORUS ELECTRICUS / Dandrifosse, G. / Grandfils, Ch. / Bettendorff, L. / Schoffeniels, E. / Bontemps, J. -- HIGH-YIELD SYNTHESIS OF A NEW Na-CHANNEL MARKER : (3H)ETHYLENEDIAMINE DITETRODOTOXIN OR ED-diTTX / Grandfils, Ch. / Bettendorff, L. / Dandrifosse, E. G. / Bontemps, J. / Dandrifosse, G. -- INSECT OLFACTORY CELLS: ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL STUDIES / Kaissling, K. E. / Klein, U. / Kramer, J. J. de / Keil, T. A. / Kanaujia, S. / Hemberger, J. -- EFFECTS OF EXTRACELLULAR ATP ON 86Rb INFLUX IN CHICK MYOTUBES; INDICATIONS OF A COTRANSMITTER ROLE IN NEUROMUSCULAR TRANSMISSION / Häggblad, J. / Eriksson, H. / Heilbronn, E. -- II. THE ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR: STRUCTURAL ASPECTS -- A MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY SPECIFIC FOR ONE OF THE TWO AGONIST BINDING SITES AT THE ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR / Fels, G. / Maelicke, A. / Schäfer, D. / Walrond, J. P. / Reese, Th. S. -- THE MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTORS / Mauron, A. / Nef, P. / Ballivet, M. -- ANTIBODIES TO SYNTHETIC PEPTIDES AS PROBES OF NICOTINIC ACETYL-CHOLINE RECEPTOR STRUCTURE / Barkas, T. / Juillerat, M. -- REGULATION OF THE NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR BY PHOSPHORYLATION / Heilbronn, E. / Eriksson, H. / Salmonsson, R. -- MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE MAJOR PROTEINS OF THE POSTSYNAPTIC DOMAIN IN TORPEDO MARMORATA ELECTROMOTOR SYNAPSE / Cartaud, J. / Kordeli, C. / Nghiêm, H. O. / Changeux, J. P. -- THE GLYCINE RECEPTOR OF RAT SPINAL CORD: PROGRESS IN THE INVESTIGATION OF A NEURONAL ION CHANNEL PROTEIN / Betz, Heinrich / Grenningloh, Gabriele / Schmitt, Bertram -- ANTIBODIES TO SYNTHETIC PEPTIDES AS PROBES FOR THE a-SUBUNIT AND FOR THE CHOLINERGIC BINDING SITE OF THE ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR / Neumann, Drorit / Gershoni, Jonathan M. / Fridkin, Mati / Fuchs, Sara -- POSTSYNAPTIC MODULATION OF NEURONAL FIRING PATTERN BY ADENOSINE / Schubert, P. / Lee, K. S. / Tetzlaff, W. / Kreutzberg, G. W. -- MAJOR PROTEINS OF THE ELECTRIC ORGAN FROM TORPEDO MARMORATA - POSSIBLE ASSOCIATIONS WITH THE POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE / Witzemann, V. / Boustead, C. M. / Walker, J. H. -- PROTEIN-BLOT ANALYSIS OF THE NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR / Gershoni, Jonathan M. / Hawrot, Edward / Wilson, Paul T. / Lentz, Thomas L. -- III. THE ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR: FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS -- ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR (FROM ELECTROPIIORUS ELECTRICUS) : A COMPARISON OF SINGLE-CHANT JE], CUPREMT RECORDINGS A W CHE1TICAL KINETIC t'JEASURFMENTS / Hess, George P. / Kolb, Kans-Albert / Lauger, Peter / Schoffeniels, Ernest / Schwarze, Werner / Udgaonkar, Jayant B. / Pasquale, Elena. B. -- PHOTOAFFINITY LABELING OF RECEPTOR STATES WITH MILLISECOND TIME RESOLUTION / Fahr, Alfred / Lauffer, Leander / Hucho, Ferdinand -- BINDING OF [3H] ACETYLCHOLINE TO ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR FROM TORPEDO CALIFORNICA UNDER EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS: STOICHIOMETRY AND EVIDENCE FOR LONG-LIVED METASTABLE STATES / Chang, H. W. / Bock, E. / Neumann, E. -- THE DIMER OF TORPEDO ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR: SYNCHRONIZED DOUBLE CHANNEL / Neumann, E. / Spillecke, F. / Schindler, H. -- SYNCHRONIZATION OF ELECTRICALLY AND CHEMICALLY EXCITABLE ION CHANNELS / Schindler, H. / Schreibmayer, W. -- EFFECTS OF HISTRIONICOTOXIN ON THE SYNAPTIC AND CONDUCTING MEMBRANES OF THE ELECTROPLAX / Bartels, E. -- THIAMINE TRIPHOSPHATE AS SPECIFIC OPERATING SUBSTANCE IN AXONAL CONDUCTION / Schoffeniels, E. / Margineanu, D. G. -- DOSE RESPONSE CURVES AT THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION / Sterz, R. / Peper, K. -- NBD-5-ACYLCHOLINE IS A FLUORESCENT AGONIST OF THE MEMBRANE-BOUND ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR FROM TORPEDO MARMORATA / Covarrubias, M. / Maelicke, A. -- DO SIGMOID DOSE-RESPONSE CURVES REQUIRE THE ASSUMPTION OF ALLOSTERICITY? / Prinz, H. / Maelicke, A. -- FOUNDATIONS OF THE ION FLUX METHOD / Bernhardt, J. / Neumann, E. -- SURFACE PROCESSES IN ION TRANSPORT AND EXCITATION / Blank, Martin -- CHEMICAL KINETIC INVESTIGATIONS OF THE EFFECTS OF CIS AND TRANS BIS-Q CN THE ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR IN ELECTROPHORUS ELECTRICUS VESICLES / Delcour, Anne H. / Hess, George P. -- DETERMINATION OF THIAMINE AND ITS PHOSPHATE ESTERS BY REVERSED-PHASE HPLC AT FEMTOMOLE LEVELS. APPLICATION TO BIOELECTROGENESIS / Bettendorff, L. / Grandfils, Ch. / Schoffeniels, E. / Bontemps, J. / Schmartz, D. / Dandrifosse, G. -- IV. IMMUNOLOGY OF THE ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR: MYASTHENIA GRAVIS AND SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY -- REGULATION OF THE IMMUNE RESPONSE TO THE ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR AND OF EXPERIMENTAL MYASTHENIA / Fuchs, Sara / Souroujon, Miry C. / Bogen, Steve -- CONGENITAL AND AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OF THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION / Vincent, A. / Whiting, P. J. / Newsom-Davis, J. -- ANTI-IDIOTYPIC ANTIBODY TO THE ACETYLCHOLINE AND ADENOSINE RECEPTORS / Erlanger, B. F. / Cleveland, W. L. / Wassermann, N. H. / Hill, B. L. / Penn, A. S. / Ku, H. H. / Sarangarajan, R. -- ANALYSIS OF THE PROPHYLACTIC AND THERAPEUTIC ACTION OF ELEC1RCLECHN IN EXPERIMENTAL AUTOIMMUNE MYASTHENIA GRAVIS / Teichberg, Vivian I. / Levi, Giovanni -- Regulation of Acetylcholine Receptors on Muscle in vitro by Central Nervous System Factors / Podleski, T. R. / Greenberg, I. / Knaack, D. / Neugebauer, K. / Salpeter, M. M. -- USE AND DISUSE AND THE CONTROL OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE ACTIVITY IN FAST AND SLOW TWITCH MUSCLE OF RAT / Dettbarn, W-D. / Groswald, D. / Gupta, R. C. / Misulis, K. E. -- THE EXPRESSION OF MICROTUBULE PROTEINS DURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM / Ginzburg, Irith / Littauer, Uriel Z. -- V. ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE AND CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE -- ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE OF MUSCLE AND NERVE / Randall, W. R. / Lai, Josephine / Barnard, E. A. -- EXPRESSION OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE IN MURINE NEURAL CELLS IN VIVO AND IN CULTURE / Massoulié, Jean / Vigny, Marc / Lazar, Monique -- THE INVOLVEMENT OF PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL IN THE ANCHORING OF HYDROPHOBIC FORMS OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE TO THE PLASMA MEMBRANE / Futerman, A. H. / Barton, P. L. / Fiorini, R. M. / Sherman, W. R. / Silman, I. -- THE HYDROPHOBIC DOMAIN OF HUMAN ERYTHROCYTE ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE CONTAINS NONAMINO ACID COMPONENTS / Rosenberry, Terrone L. / Haas, Robert / Roberts, William L. / Kim, Benedict H. -- CHOLINESTERASE: TWO SURPRISING INHIBITORS / Wilson, I. B. -- CORRELATION OF ASSUMED FUNCTIONS OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE WITH ITS CELLULAR AND SUBCELLULAR DISTRIBUTION / Brzin, M. -- THE MECHANISM OF ACTION OF CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE / Mautner, Henry G. -- ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE IN REGENERATING SKELETAL MUSCLES / Sketelj, J. / Blinc, A. / Brzin, M. -- Distribution and regulation of acetylcholinesterase forms in chick myotubes : comparison with rat myotubes / Vigny, M. / Vallette, F. -- ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE IN MAMMALIAN SKELETAL MUSCLE AND SYMPATHETIC GANGLION CELLS. EXTRA AND INTRACELLULAR HYDROPHILIC AND HYDROPHOBIC ASYMMETRIC FORMS / Dreyfus, P. / Verdière, M. / Goudou, D. / Garcia, L. / Rieger, F. -- INHIBITION AND PHOTOAFFINITY LABELING OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE BY PHENCYCLIDINE AND TRIPHENYLMETHYLPHOSPHONIUM / Verdenhalven, Jan / Hucho, Ferdinand -- A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE AGEING OF DFP-INHIBITED SERINE HYDROLASES BY MEANS OF 31P-NMR AND MASS SPECTROMETRY / Drift, Alfons C. M. van der -- LIPID MECHANISM AND ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE FUNCTION / Kaufmann, Konrad -- AUTHOR INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX -- Backmatterweiterlesen