Frontmatter -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Contents -- I . CHEMISTRY AND CATALYTIC ACTIVITY OF CHOLINESTERASES -- INTRODUCTION TO SESSION I / Reiner, Elsa -- AMINO ACID COMPOSITION AND SEQUENCE OF HUMAN SERUM CHOLINESTERASE: A PROGRESS REPORT / Lockridge, Oksana -- PHOTOSUICIDE INHIBITION OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE / Kieffer, Brigitte / P. Goeldner, Maurice / G. Hirth, Christian -- ROLE OF DEHYDRATION OF THE OF CHOLINESTERASES ESTERATIC SITE IN ACYLATION / R. Pavlifič, Miloš / Zorko, Matjaž -- SITES FOR REVERSIBLE BINDING OF ACYLATING INHIBITORS TO ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE EVALUATED FROM KINETIC STUDIES / Reiner, Elsa -- II. MULTIPLE MOLECULAR FORMS OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE STRUCTURE, REGULATION AND MOLECULAR GENETICS -- INTRODUCTION TO SESSION II / A . Barnard, Eric -- MULTIPLE MOLECULAR FORMS OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO MUSCLE FUNCTION / A. Barnard, Eric / J. Barnard, Penelope / Jarvis, Jonathan / Jedrzejczyk, Jolanta / Lai, Josephine / A. Pizzey, John / R. Randall, William -- THE POLYMORPHISM OF CHOLINESTERASES: Classification of molecular forms; Interactions and solubilization characteristics; Metabolic relationships and regulations / Massoulie, J. / Bon, S. / Lazar, M. / Grassi, J. / Marsh, D. / Meflah, K. / Toutant, J .-P. / Vallette, F. / Vigny, M. -- SOLUBILIZATION OF MEMBRANE-BOUND ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE BY A PHOSiHATIDYLINOSITOL-SPEEIFIC PHOSEHOLI PÄSE C: ENZYMATIC AND PHYSICOCHIMICAL STUDIES / H. Futerman, A. / M. Fiorini, R. / Roth, E. / M. Michaelson, D. / G. Low, M. / Silman, I. -- TWO CLASSES OF COLLAGEN-TAILED MOLECULAR FORMS OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE / Ramírez, Galo / Gómez-Barriocanal, Javier / Barat, Ana / Rodríguez-Borrajo, Corona -- TAILED, ASYMMETRIC ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE AND SKELETAL MUSCLE BASAL LAMINA IN VERTEBRATES SUBCELLULAR LOCATION; “HYDROPHILIC” AND “HYDROPHOBIC” VARIANTS / Nicolet, M. / Rieger, F. / Dreyfus, P. / Pinion-Raymond, M. / Tran, Lam -- MOLECULAR ASPECTS OF THE BIOSYNTHESIS AND DISPOSITION OF THE MULTIPLE FORMS OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE / Taylor, P. / Camp, S. / Lee, S. / Amitai, G. / Taylor, S.S. / Doctor, B.P. -- HUMAN ERYTHROCYTE ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE IS AN AMPHIPATHIC FORM / L. Rosenberry, T. / M. Scoggin, D. / A. Dutta-Choudhury, T. / Haas, R. -- STUDIES ON MEMBRANE-BOUND AND SOLUBILIZED ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE / T. Plummer, D. / S.Y. Chai, M. / J. Vidal, C. -- AMPHIPHILE DEPENDENCY AND AMPHIPHILIC STRUCTURE OF DETERGENT SOLUBLE ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE / Brodbeck, Urs / Ott, Peter -- SYNTHESIS, ASSEMBLY, AND PROCESSING OF AChE IN TISSUE CULTURED MUSCLE / L. Rotundo, Richard -- ONTOGENIC AND AGRANULATION-INDUCED ALTERATIONS IN CHOLINESTERASES AND IN CHOLINESTERASE mRNA IN THE RODENT CEREBELLUM / Parvari, Ruti / Silman, Israel / Soreq, Hermona -- FUNCTIONAL ROLE OF CHOLINESTERASE IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF NEURO-MUSCULAR JUNCTION / G. Magazanik, L. / V. Fedorov, V. / A. Giniatullin, R. / E. Nikolsky, E. / A. Snetkov, V. -- III. SUB-CELLULAR LOCALIZATION, TRANSPORT AND SECRETION OF CHOLINESTERASES -- INTRODUCTION TO SESSION III / Brzin, Miro -- IMMUNOCHEMICAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF MAMMALIAN CHOLINESTERASES / Brimijoin, S. / P. Mintz, K. -- CHOLINESTERASES IN SKELETAL MUSCLE AND SYMPATHETIC GANGLIA / Brzin, Miro / Klinar, Biba / Sketelj, Janez / Kiauta, Tomaz / Grubic, Zoran / Sket, Dusan -- CYTOCHEMICAL CHANGES OF CHOLINESTERASES IN MOTOR NEURONS DURING REGENERATION / W. Kreutzberg, G. / Tetzlaff, W. / Tóth, L. -- A NOVEL FUNCTION FOR ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE IN NIGRO-STRIATAL NEURONS / A. Greenfield, Susan -- IV. BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE AND BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE, AND CHANGES IN DISEASE STATES -- INTRODUCTION TO SESSION IV / Brzin, Miro -- DEMONSTRATION OF A NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE AND BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE IN THE PREGANGLIONICALLY DENERVATED SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION OF THE CAT / George B. Koelle, George / A. Ruch, Gerard / Uchida, Eiji -- CHOLINESTERASES—FUNDAMENTAL AND APPLIED ASPECT.S NEUROCRINE REGULATION OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE IN HEALTH AND DISEASE / W. Festoff, Barry / Popiela, Heinz / L. Beach, Robert -- STUDIES ON HUMAN CHOLINESTERASES IN RELATION TO GENETICS, PHARMACOLOGY AND NEUROMUSCULAR PATHOLOGY / Biagioni, S. / Scarsella, G. / Toschi, G. -- ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE: MULTIPLE FUNCTIONS? / Chubb, Ian -- V. ANTICHOLINESTERASES: TOXICOLOGY AND STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIP OF INHIBITORS AND ANTIDOTES -- INTRODUCTION TO SESSION V / Vojvodić, V. -- EFFECTS OF SARIN, SOMAN AND TABUN ON PLASMA AND BRAIN ALIESTERASE ACTIVITY IN THE RAT / Bošković, Bogdan / Jokanović, Milan / Maksimović, Matej -- ON THE EXISTENCE OF A SOMAN DEPOT / van Helden, Herman / Berends, Frits / Wolthuis, Otto / Benschop, Henk -- DETOXIFICATION OF ORGANOPHOSPHORUS COMPOUNDS / H. Sterri, Sigrun / Fonnum, Frode -- CONSEQUENCES OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE INHIBITION IN FAST AND SLOW MUSCLE OF RAT / Dettbarn, Wolf-D. -- TOXICOLOGY OF SOME ANTICHOLINESTERASES USED AS CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS - A REVIEW / C. Dacre, Jack -- OXIDATIVE BIOACTIVATION OF ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS WITH EMPHASIS ON S-ALKYL PHOSPHOROTHIOLATE PESTICIDES / E. Casida, John -- VI. ANTICHOLINESTERASES AND NEUROTOXIC ESTERASE: MECHANISM OF DELAYED NEUROTOXICITY -- JNTRODUCTION TO SESSION VI / W. Wilson, Barry -- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF INHIBITION OF NONSPECIFIC ESTERASES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ORGANOPHOSPHORUS-INDUCED DELAYED NEUROTOXICITY / B. Abou-Donia, Mohhamed / M. Lapadula, Daniel / D. Carrington, Clark / A. Nomeir, Amin -- THE AGING REACTION OF INHIBITED NEUROPATHY TARGET ESTERASE - FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES AND TOXICOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE / K. Johnson, Martin -- DIRECT COMPARISON OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF NEUROTOXIC ESTERASE AND ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE IN RAT AND HEN BRAIN / J. Hollingsworth, P. / R. Dudek, B. / B. Smith, C. / J. Richardson, R. -- UNIFYING MECHANISMS IN ACHE REGULATION AND ORGANOPHOSPHATE 'INDUCED NEUROPATHY OF THE CHICKEN / W. Wilson, Barry / Ishikawa, Yuji / Chow, Edward / G. McNamee, Mark / R. Randall, William / T. Patterson, Gary / K. Entrikin, Richard / S. Nieberg, Pamela -- VII. AUTHOR INDEX -- VIII. SUBJECT INDEX -- IX. TITLES OF POSTERS PRESENTED AT THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON CHOLINESTERASES (Bled, Yugoslavia, September, 17th to 21st, 1983)