Neuromuscular Junction

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· Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology Book 42 · Springer Science & Business Media
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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 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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S.E. Smith (Susan Smith) is a New York Times, USA TODAY, International, and Award-Winning Bestselling author of science fiction, fantasy, romance, paranormal, and contemporary works for adults, young adults, and children. She likes writing a variety of genres that pull her readers into worlds that take them away. Her titles include: Abducting Abby, A Dragonlings' Haunted Halloween, A Dragonlings' Magical Christmas, The Dragonlings' Very Special Valentine and Choosing Riley.

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