A COMPARATIVE SYMPOSIUM ON NEUROMUSCULAR INTERACTION

建议为1985年12月的巴尔的摩会议举办一次专题讨论会 美国动物学家协会。要探讨的课题是肌肉纤维。 分型作为神经肌肉相互作用的生物测试。这个话题来得正是时候。 对于最近用来研究肌肉纤维的技术的爆炸性增长 脊椎动物和脊椎动物的类型及其与神经元相互作用的关系 无脊椎动物。在这个领域提出的有趣的问题 今天涉及到调节相互作用的分子机制。 研讨会将采取比较的方法，因为已经取得了重大进展 在建立神经对肌肉纤维特性的影响方面取得了进展 脊椎动物和节肢动物的肌肉。这次座谈会提出了讨论 和吸收现代肌肉纤维分型方法及其在临床中的应用 回答有关周围神经-肌肉相互作用的机械性问题 在脊椎动物和节肢动物中。这种比较方法将 从两组不相关的人那里收集关于神经肌肉系统的信息 生物体，其中的差异经常被强调，基本的和一般的 周围神经-肌肉相互作用的相似性并不总是 感激不尽。这样的研讨会以前从未举行过，也没有发表过。

A symposium is proposed for the December 1985 Baltimore meeting of the American Society of Zoologists. The topic to be explored is muscle fiber typing as a bioassay of nerve muscle interaction. The topic is timely due to the recent explosion of techniques being used to study muscle fiber types and their relationship to neuronal interaction in both vertebrate and invertebrate animals. The interesting questions being posed in this field today relate to the molecular mechanisms of the regulatory interaction. The symposium will take a comparative approach as significant progress has been made in establishing neural influences on muscle fiber properties in both vertebrate and arthropod muscle. This symposium proposes discussion and assimilation of modern muscle fiber typing methods and their use in answering mechanistic questions about peripheral nerve-muscle interaction in both vertebrates and arthropods. This comparative approach will assemble information on neuromuscular systems from two groups of unrelated organisms, where differences have often been stressed and basic and general similarities in peripheral nerve-muscle interaction have not always been appreciated. Such a symposium has not been held or published previously.