Ionic Actions on Vascular Smooth Muscle

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. Response Characteristics of K+-, Ca++-, and Other Liquid Membrane Electrodes

   • W. E. Morf, M. Oehme, W. Simon

   Pages 1-5

3. Serum Ca++-Activity and Complexation

   • K. Paschen

   Pages 6-11

4. Calcium Activation of Vascular Contractile Proteins

   • U. Mrwa, J. C. Rüegg

   Pages 12-16

5. Calcium Compartments in Vascular Smooth Muscle: Electron Probe Analysis

   • A. P. Somlyo, A. V. Somlyo, H. Shuman, R. E. Garfield

   Pages 17-20

6. Differentiation of Calcium Activation Systems in Vascular Smooth Muscle

   • K. Golenhofen, A. H. Weston

   Pages 21-25

7. La+++ and Excitation Contraction Coupling in Vascular Smooth Muscle

   • C. van Breemen, R. Deth

   Pages 26-33

8. Calcium and Regulation of Cyclic Nucleotides in Rat Aorta

   • J.-C. Stoclet, T. Michon, J.-M. Scheftel, F. Demesy-Waeldele

   Pages 34-38

9. Calcium and the Regulation of Adenosine 3′, 5′-Monophosphate by Neurotransmitters

   • J. Schultz

   Pages 39-43

10. Reaction of Capillary Flow to Electrical Stimulation of the Capillary Wall and to Application of Different Ions

    • D. W. Lübbers, G. Hauck, H. Weigelt

    Pages 44-47

11. Membrane Basis of Vascular Regulation

    • G. Siegel, G. Niesert, R. Ehehalt, O. Bertsche

    Pages 48-55

12. Noradrenaline and pH-Effects at the Membrane of Vascular Smooth Muscle

    • U. Peiper, R. Laven

    Pages 56-60

13. Vascular Effects of Potassium in Physiologic Concentration Range

    • H. Nguyen-Duong, K. Brecht, G. Gebert

    Pages 61-66

14. Calcium in the Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell

    • W. R. Keatinge

    Pages 67-70

15. Spontaneous Actions of Small Pial Vessels and the Response to Transmural Electrical Stimulation

    • H. Brandt, H. G. Enzenross

    Pages 71-74

16. Ionic Interaction in Pial Vascular Smooth Muscles

    • E. Betz

    Pages 75-77

17. Measurements of Pial Perivascular Ion Activities by Means of Ion Sensitive Microelectrodes

    • D. Heuser

    Pages 78-82

18. The Effects of Serotonin and Noradrenaline on the Pial Arteries

    • M. Csornai

    Pages 83-86

19. Interactions of Norepinephrine with H+ and K+ at Pial Arteries of Cats

    • W. Kuschinsky, M. Wahl

    Pages 87-91

20. The Action of K+ at the Cerebral Vessels

    • I. R. Cameron, J. Caronna, R. Miller, R. A. F. Linton

    Pages 92-96

This book contains the contributions and discussions of the second symposium on vascular smooth muscles held in Ttibingen in February, 1976. It provides an up-to-date review of the role of ions in the trans­ mission of signals from the perivascular space to the contractile ele­ ments of the smooth muscle cells. The various aspects are mainly discussed from a functional point of view and only few contributions concern the morphologic variations of cells .during varying ion activity. Special emphasis was placed on the significance of ion variations in the cerebral tissue and their rela­ tion to metabolic and nervous control of the brain vessels. It could be seen in this symposium that new techniques enabled the in­ vestigators to make considerable progress in the understanding of the actions and the interactions of ions on the membranes and on the inter­ nal structures of the smooth muscle cells if one compares the findings with the results of the previous symposium held in Ttibingen in 1972. It became evident that the insight into ionic actions enables the de­ velopment of powerful tools to be utilized in future therapy of dis­ turbances of local blood flow regulation. The participants of the symposium render thanks to the Dr. Thiemann GmbH in Ltinen, which supported the symposium and this publication in a generous way. Finally it is a pleasure of the Editor to thank the members of the Physiological Institute of Ttibingen for their encouragement in the ar­ rangement of the meeting.

• adenosine
• brain
• calcium
• cell
• muscle
• therapy

• Physiologisches Institut, Lehrstuhl I, Tübingen, Germany

  Eberhard Betz

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