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Neuromuscular Junction

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  • © 1976

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Editors:
  1. Eleanor Zaimis

    1. Royal Free Hospital, School of Medicine, University of London, London, Great Britain

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  2. Jennifer Maclagan

    1. Royal Free Hospital, School of Medicine, University of London, London, Great Britain

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Part of the book series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology (HEP, volume 42)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. The Neuromuscular Junction: Areas of Uncertainty

    • Eleanor Zaimis
    Pages 1-21

  3. The Anatomy and Pathology of the Neuromuscular Junction

    • Ruth E. M. Bowden, L. W. Duchen
    Pages 23-97

  4. Neurochemistry of Cholinergic Terminals

    • F. C. MacIntosh, B. Collier
    Pages 99-228

  5. Transmission of Impulses from Nerve to Muscle

    • B. L. Ginsborg, D. H. Jenkinson
    Pages 229-364

  6. Depolarising Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs

    • Eleanor Zaimis, S. Head
    Pages 365-419

  7. Competitive Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs

    • Jennifer Maclagan
    Pages 421-486

  8. Pharmacology of Anticholinesterase Drugs

    • F. Hobbiger
    Pages 487-581

  9. The Clinician Looks at Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs

    • R. D. Dripps
    Pages 583-592

  10. Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs in Man

    • S. E. Smith
    Pages 593-660

  11. Twenty Years’ Experience with Decamethonium

    • G. E. Hale Enderby
    Pages 661-675

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 677-748
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About this book

Has the neuromuscular junction been over-exposed or is it perhaps already a closed book? I asked myself this at a recent International Congress when an American colleague complained that the Journal of Physiology had articles on nothing but the neuromuscular junction, while another colleague asked why I was editing a volume on a subject about which everything was already known. It is worrying to think that these views may be shared by other people. I hope that this volume will convince my two colleagues and other readers that the neuromuscular junction is very much alive and continues to attract the interest of many workers from a variety of fields; strange as it may seem, the synapse between a motor nerve ending and muscle fibre, with its relatively simple architecture, is one of the most inter­ esting sites in the body-I do hope we have done it justice. The various chapters of this volume present a cross section of knowledge as viewed by a group of 13 individuals, actively engaged in research. Multi-author volumes such as this are frequently criticised on the grounds that chapters or sec­ tions overlap. I believe that such criticium is only valid where the overlap is repetitious. Where it results in the reader having available discussions of material from differing stand-points, overlap becomes a valuable feature of this type of publication.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Royal Free Hospital, School of Medicine, University of London, London, Great Britain

    Eleanor Zaimis, Jennifer Maclagan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Neuromuscular Junction

  • Editors: Eleanor Zaimis, Jennifer Maclagan

  • Series Title: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45476-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg 1976

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-45478-3Published: 21 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-45476-9Published: 13 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0171-2004

  • Series E-ISSN: 1865-0325

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 748

  • Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general, Pharmacy

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