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Neuroscience Year. Supplement 1 to the encyclopedia of neuroscience
Camp. Biochem. Physioi. Vol. 97A, No. 3, pp. 439-441,
1990
Pergamon Press plc. Printed in Great Britain
BOOK Readings
from the Encyclopedia
of Neuroscience.
REVIEWS Adrenergic System and Ventricular Arrbytbmias in Myocardiat Infa~tio~Edited by J. BRACHMANNand A. SCHOMIG. 363 pp. 1989. Springer, Berlin. DM 126.
1988.
Birkhauser, Boston, MA. Seven different volumes are available consisting of selected articles from the 2 volume Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. The volumes are: Comparative
Neuroscience
and
Neurobiology
(134
Basic electrophysiological studies on the responses of cardiac muscle to catecholamines, and clinical studies on acute and chronic myocardial ischaemia are brought together in this book. The main chapters are on the release and uptake of catecholamines in ischaemia; regulation of receptors; the adrenergic contribution to ventricular arrhythmias; ischaemic malignant arrhythmias; the membrane currents (Ca, Na, K, pH) in ventricular arrhythmias; mechanisms of arrhythmias, ventricular muscle responses to beta blockers, sudden cardiac death in man.
pp.)
selected by L. N. IRWIN; Learning and Memory (96 pp.) selected by R. F. THOMPSON; Sensory Systems I. Visual Systems (I 15 pp.) selected by R. HELD; Sensory Systems ii. Other Senses (146 pp.) selected by J. M. WOLFE; States of Brain and Mind (121 pp.) selected by J. A. HOBSDN; Abnormal States of Brain and Mind (I 18 pp.) selected by J. A. Hobson; Speech and Language (71 pp.) selected by D. KIMURA. Each volume is a paperback and costs $24.50, Neuroscience
Year. Suppie~nt
NeuroscienceEdited by G. Birkhauser. Boston, MA.
1 to the ~~ycIo~a ADELMAN. 182
pp.
Understanding MechanismsJ.
Action;
Principles
and Molecolat
ESPINAL.129 pp. 1989. Routledge, Chapman and Hall, New York. $45 (USA). Elsewhere $54.
of
1989.
An account of the chemistry, synthesis and secretion of insulin, is followed by the pathophysiology of insulin, molecular mechanisms involved in insulin action, insulin receptor, molecular mechanisms of insulin signal transduction. The insulin receptor belongs to the tyrosine kinase family. The kinase is activated by the binding of insulin, leading to autophosphorylation of the receptor. Site directed mutagenesis, antibody studies, and defective tyrosine kinase activity in some patients with insulin resistance, indicate that the tyrosine kinase activity is required for transmission of the signal. A G protein is thought to be involved. Some of the effects are via CAMP and others via glycosyl phosphatidylinositol. This concise book presents the evidence about the action of insulin and also indicates steps that are still missing.
This volume supplements the main 2 volume work, with a new section on AIDS, increased material on Motor system organization. Atria1 natriuretic factor, and an updating of 64 articles. Animal Adaptation to Cold-Edited
by I.,. C. WANG.441 pp. 1989. Springer, Berlin. DM 198. Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology, Vol. 4. This series of review articles considers; cold adaptation in ectotherms. regulation of membrane function and cellular metabolism; freeze tolerance and freeze avoidance; cold induced thermogenesis in placental mammals; neurophysiological aspects of thermoregulation; neurochemical aspects of thermoregulation; avian adjustments to cold; responses to cold of monotremes and marsupials; aquatic mammals in cold; terrestrial mammals in cold; torpor in birds and mammals; cold energetics and populations. The energy savings by torpor can be from 10% in daily nocturnal hypothe~ia in small passetines to 88% in seasonal hibernation in Richardson’s ground squirrel. Readers of Comp. Biochem. Physiol. will find this book of great interest.
People and Ideas-Edited by D. C. pp. 1989. American Physiological Society, Bethesda, MA. $60.
Membrane Transport; TOSTESON.414
Water movement, the sodium-potassium pump, calcium pump, anion exchange and band 3 protein, secondary active transport, electrodiffusion, excitation-contraction coupling, cell connectivity, epithelial transport, and flow and diffusion are reviewed by leading workers such as Tosteson, Davson, Robertson, Skou, Hasselbach, Rothstein, Heinz, Goldman, Armstrong, Mullins, Podolsky, Loewenstein, Ussing and Papenheimer, it’s all here!
Respiratory Physiology-Edited by C. R. BRIDGES~~~P. J. BUTLER.350 pp. 1989. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. $69.59.
Techniques in Comparative
Books that tell you how to do things are always interesting and this one is no exception. it provides details of the theory and practice of morphometry of respiratory systems; non invasive respirometry doubly labelled water techniques for measuring energy expenditure; metabolic microcalorimetry and respirometry of aquatic animals; invasive methods; telemetry; measuring blood flow and distribution in intermittently ventilating and diving vertebrates; neurophysiological techniques; perfused preparations; measurement of anaerobic metabolites; measurement of oxygen affinity in blood and Hb solutions; methods in acid base physiology. The book does assume some previous knowledge and is not a practical book giving instructions by numbers. Nevertheless most respiratory physiologists will find it useful.
Iusulin
Reviews of Physiology, ~~be~s~y
and Pharmacology. Vol. 114. Speeiat issue on Ionic Channels. 264 pp. 1990. Springer.
Berlin. $79.50. There are three reviews in this issue: (I) Molecular properties of calcium channels; (2) properties and regulation of calcium channels in muscle cells; (3) pharmacological modulation of voltage dependent calcium channels in intact ceils. They provide an excellent itlustrated up to date account of these important membrane channels. Energy Transduction of Bioenergetics-W.
in Biological Membranes; A Textbook
A. CRAMERand D. B. KNAFF.545 pp. 1990. Springer, New York. $89.
This is the text for a one semester undergraduate course. The chapters are; revision of the thermodynamic background; 439
1990
Pergamon Press plc. Printed in Great Britain
BOOK Readings
from the Encyclopedia
of Neuroscience.
REVIEWS Adrenergic System and Ventricular Arrbytbmias in Myocardiat Infa~tio~Edited by J. BRACHMANNand A. SCHOMIG. 363 pp. 1989. Springer, Berlin. DM 126.
1988.
Birkhauser, Boston, MA. Seven different volumes are available consisting of selected articles from the 2 volume Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. The volumes are: Comparative
Neuroscience
and
Neurobiology
(134
Basic electrophysiological studies on the responses of cardiac muscle to catecholamines, and clinical studies on acute and chronic myocardial ischaemia are brought together in this book. The main chapters are on the release and uptake of catecholamines in ischaemia; regulation of receptors; the adrenergic contribution to ventricular arrhythmias; ischaemic malignant arrhythmias; the membrane currents (Ca, Na, K, pH) in ventricular arrhythmias; mechanisms of arrhythmias, ventricular muscle responses to beta blockers, sudden cardiac death in man.
pp.)
selected by L. N. IRWIN; Learning and Memory (96 pp.) selected by R. F. THOMPSON; Sensory Systems I. Visual Systems (I 15 pp.) selected by R. HELD; Sensory Systems ii. Other Senses (146 pp.) selected by J. M. WOLFE; States of Brain and Mind (121 pp.) selected by J. A. HOBSDN; Abnormal States of Brain and Mind (I 18 pp.) selected by J. A. Hobson; Speech and Language (71 pp.) selected by D. KIMURA. Each volume is a paperback and costs $24.50, Neuroscience
Year. Suppie~nt
NeuroscienceEdited by G. Birkhauser. Boston, MA.
1 to the ~~ycIo~a ADELMAN. 182
pp.
Understanding MechanismsJ.
Action;
Principles
and Molecolat
ESPINAL.129 pp. 1989. Routledge, Chapman and Hall, New York. $45 (USA). Elsewhere $54.
of
1989.
An account of the chemistry, synthesis and secretion of insulin, is followed by the pathophysiology of insulin, molecular mechanisms involved in insulin action, insulin receptor, molecular mechanisms of insulin signal transduction. The insulin receptor belongs to the tyrosine kinase family. The kinase is activated by the binding of insulin, leading to autophosphorylation of the receptor. Site directed mutagenesis, antibody studies, and defective tyrosine kinase activity in some patients with insulin resistance, indicate that the tyrosine kinase activity is required for transmission of the signal. A G protein is thought to be involved. Some of the effects are via CAMP and others via glycosyl phosphatidylinositol. This concise book presents the evidence about the action of insulin and also indicates steps that are still missing.
This volume supplements the main 2 volume work, with a new section on AIDS, increased material on Motor system organization. Atria1 natriuretic factor, and an updating of 64 articles. Animal Adaptation to Cold-Edited
by I.,. C. WANG.441 pp. 1989. Springer, Berlin. DM 198. Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology, Vol. 4. This series of review articles considers; cold adaptation in ectotherms. regulation of membrane function and cellular metabolism; freeze tolerance and freeze avoidance; cold induced thermogenesis in placental mammals; neurophysiological aspects of thermoregulation; neurochemical aspects of thermoregulation; avian adjustments to cold; responses to cold of monotremes and marsupials; aquatic mammals in cold; terrestrial mammals in cold; torpor in birds and mammals; cold energetics and populations. The energy savings by torpor can be from 10% in daily nocturnal hypothe~ia in small passetines to 88% in seasonal hibernation in Richardson’s ground squirrel. Readers of Comp. Biochem. Physiol. will find this book of great interest.
People and Ideas-Edited by D. C. pp. 1989. American Physiological Society, Bethesda, MA. $60.
Membrane Transport; TOSTESON.414
Water movement, the sodium-potassium pump, calcium pump, anion exchange and band 3 protein, secondary active transport, electrodiffusion, excitation-contraction coupling, cell connectivity, epithelial transport, and flow and diffusion are reviewed by leading workers such as Tosteson, Davson, Robertson, Skou, Hasselbach, Rothstein, Heinz, Goldman, Armstrong, Mullins, Podolsky, Loewenstein, Ussing and Papenheimer, it’s all here!
Respiratory Physiology-Edited by C. R. BRIDGES~~~P. J. BUTLER.350 pp. 1989. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. $69.59.
Techniques in Comparative
Books that tell you how to do things are always interesting and this one is no exception. it provides details of the theory and practice of morphometry of respiratory systems; non invasive respirometry doubly labelled water techniques for measuring energy expenditure; metabolic microcalorimetry and respirometry of aquatic animals; invasive methods; telemetry; measuring blood flow and distribution in intermittently ventilating and diving vertebrates; neurophysiological techniques; perfused preparations; measurement of anaerobic metabolites; measurement of oxygen affinity in blood and Hb solutions; methods in acid base physiology. The book does assume some previous knowledge and is not a practical book giving instructions by numbers. Nevertheless most respiratory physiologists will find it useful.
Iusulin
Reviews of Physiology, ~~be~s~y
and Pharmacology. Vol. 114. Speeiat issue on Ionic Channels. 264 pp. 1990. Springer.
Berlin. $79.50. There are three reviews in this issue: (I) Molecular properties of calcium channels; (2) properties and regulation of calcium channels in muscle cells; (3) pharmacological modulation of voltage dependent calcium channels in intact ceils. They provide an excellent itlustrated up to date account of these important membrane channels. Energy Transduction of Bioenergetics-W.
in Biological Membranes; A Textbook
A. CRAMERand D. B. KNAFF.545 pp. 1990. Springer, New York. $89.
This is the text for a one semester undergraduate course. The chapters are; revision of the thermodynamic background; 439