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Perspectives in MAO: past, present, and future

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Monoamine Oxidase Enzymes

Part of the book series: Journal of Neural Transmission ((NEURAL SUPPL,volume 23))

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A plethora of international symposia have been devoted to monoamine oxidases in the past 15 years, including Cagliari, Sardinia (1971); CIBA Symposium, London (1975); Midland, Michigan (1979); Budapest (1979); Göteborg (1980); Airlie House, Virginia (1981); Hakone, Japan (1981); Mannheim, Germany (1982), and Paris (1983), and the First Workshop on MAO in Cambridge, England (1984). One might, in fact, wonder if progress in this field has been sufficiently rapid to justify the choice of MAO as the subject of these frequent tribal rituals. Probably not. Perhaps the reason lies elsewhere. Few topics in the bio-medical sciences interlink the interests of as varied a group of investigators in different disciplines as does MAO. One might add that even fewer problems require as much interdisciplinary effort for progress as does MAO, as has been dramatically illustrated in recent work on the experimental Parkinsonism induced by MPTP.

The original studies reported here were supported by Program Project HL 16251 from the NIH, by grant No. DMB 8416967 from the National Science Foundation and the Veterans Administration.

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  1. Molecular Biology Division, Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA

    T. P. Singer

  2. Departments of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

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Singer, T.P. (1987). Perspectives in MAO: past, present, and future. In: Oreland, L., Callingham, B.A. (eds) Monoamine Oxidase Enzymes. Journal of Neural Transmission, vol 23. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-8901-6_1

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