Neuromuscular Junction

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.; Maglagan, J.; Smith, S.E.; Zaimis, E.

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.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2012-03-21

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783642454783

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-45476-9

Dimensions: 244.0cm x170.0cm

Pages: 748.0