Plasticity of motoneuronal connections

Preface. Section I. Muscle. 1. The satellite cell: an overview (H. Schmalbruch). 2. Retroviral vectors as probes of muscle development (S.M. Hughes and H. Blau). 3. Implantation of myogenic cells into muscles of adult mice (A. Irintchev, A. Wernig, A. Hartling, K. Zimmerman and A. Starzinski-Powith). 4. Synaptic modulations in muscle conditioning (I. Mussini and U. Carraro). 5. Quantitative aspects of muscle innervation (W. Zenker and E.P. Scheidegger). Section II. Endplate plasticity. 6. Peanut agglutinin as a probe for studying remodeling and differentiation of synaptic extracellular matrix at the frog neuromuscular junction (C.P. Ko). 7. Focal specialization for stability and plasticity at neuromuscular junctions of young and old mice (N. Robbins). 8. The plasticity and stability of neuromuscular synapses in living mice (R.J. Balice-Gordon and J.W. Lichtman). 9. Endplate and motor unit remodeling in vertebrate muscles (A. Wernig, T.F. Salvini, B. Langenfeld-Oster, A. Irintchev and M. Dorlochter). 10. Activity-dependent adaptation in neuromuscular systems: comparative observations (H.L. Atwood, P.V. Nguyen and A.J. Mercier). 11. Postsynaptic folds and neuromuscular disease (C.R. Slater, P.R. Lyons, T.J. Walls and S.A. Bradley). 12. Non-pathological synaptic mechanisms in diseases of the neuromuscular junction (P.C. Molenaar, J.J. Plomp, G. Th.H. Van Kempen, Y. Graus and M.H. De Baets). Section III. ACh receptor and other synaptic features. 13. Regulation of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor at the rat neuromuscular junction (V. Witzemann). 14. Fast desensitization of transmitter activated channels and synaptic transmission (Ch. Franke, H. Hatt and J. Dudel). 15. Properties of acetylcholine receptor channels in isolated skeletal muscle fibres in culture (F. Ruzzier, F. Grohovaz and P. Lorenzon). 16. Effect of denervation and regeneration on the stability of junctional ACh receptors in mature frog muscles (A.D. Grinnell and J. Do). 17. Active zones and plasticity of motor nerve terminals (L.A. Kashapova, D.A. Moshkov and E.N. Bezgina). 18. Calcium channels in the neuromuscular junction: functional linkage between impulse transmission and fine structural alterations in the motor end plate (B. Csillik, E. Csillik-Knyiha and L. Siklos). 19. Anticholinesterase drugs and the mechanisms underlying neuromuscular transmission (M. Kordas, M. Scuka and R. Zorec). Section IV. Motor unit plasticity. 20. Physiological correlates of synaptic competition during synapse elimination in frog neuromuscular junctions (R. Dunia and A.A. Herrera). 21. An examination of use-dependent plasticity of neuromuscular junctions in light of neurotrophic theory (R.R. Ribchester and M.J. Mijnster). 22. Motoneuronal branching and motor size after complete and partial nerve injuries. (T. Gordon, J. T. de Zepetnek, V. Rafuse and S. Erdebil). 23. Action potentials and contraction forces of human motor units in chronic partial denervation (R. Dengler, A. Konstanzer, J. Elek, M.