Salánki János (szerk.): Neurobiology of invertebrates. Mechanisms of rhytm regulation. Tihany, Aug. 2-5. 1972 - Neurobiology of invertebrates (Budapest, 1973)

NEUROBIOLOGY OF INVERTEBRATES MECHANISMS OF RHYTHM REGULATION Symposium at Tihany, 2-5 August, 1971 Edited by J. SALÁNKI Rhythmicity being one of the basic rules in living processes is investigated extensively also in invertebrates. Investigations on the regulatory mech­anisms of basic processes in lower phyla very often result in discoveries important from a general biological point of view. This volume containing 33 papers and discussions delivered at a satellite symposium of the XXVth Congress of IUPS reports on recent research in the field of rhythm regulation. The issues of the papers cover primarily rhyth­mic phenomena, independent of exter­nal factors but based on structural and functional characteristics of cells, organs of the whole organism, i.e. endogenous rhythms. The book is divided into four main parts. The first consists of papers deal­ing with rhythms on cellular level analysing mainly the mechanisms of rhythmic firing in neurones. The se­cond and third parts deal with rhythm appearing at organ level; the papers are focussed on the rhythmic function­ing of the heart. The fourth part con­tains results on behavioural rhythms and their neural regulation in the whole organism. The material is particularly interest­ing from a comparative physiological point of view, as a number of different species — Vermes, Gastropoda, Fele­­cypoda, Crustacea and Insecta — were investigated by specialists of 14 coun­tries attending the Symposium. AKADÉMIAI KIADÓ Publishing House of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest

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