Neuromuscular Junction |
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| Author:
| Bowden, R. E. M.
Maglagan, J.
Zaimis, E.
Collier, B.
Dripps, R. D.
Duchen, L. W.
Hale Enderby, G. E.
Ginsborg, B. L.
Head, S.
Hobbiger, F.
Jenkinson, D. H.
MacIntosh, F. C.
Smith, S. E. |
| Associate Editor:
| Maglagan, J. |
| Editor:
| Zaimis, E. |
| Series title: | Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-3-642-45476-9 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2013 |
| Publisher: | Springer
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $149.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionHas 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.