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QUANTITI ES,

U NITS, AN D SYM BO LS

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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY, SERIES B

Number 1206 22 December 1982 Volume 217

CONTENTS

Douzou P. pages 1-28 Review Lecture. Developments in low-temperature biochemistry and biology

RITCEIE, J. M. 29-35 On the relation between fibre diameter and conduction velocity in myelinated nerve fibres

LACALLI, T. C. 37-58 The nervous system and ciliary band of Muller's larva. [Plates 1-8]

SMITH, ELSPETH B. & STAPLES, EILEEN M. 59-75 Plasma protein concentrations in interstitial fluid from human aortas

Kocsis, J. D., WAXMAN, S. G., HILDEBRAND, C. & Ruiz, J. A. 77-87 Regenerating mammalian nerve fibres: changes in action potential waveform and firing characteristics following blockage of potassium conductance. [Plate 1]

KORENAGA, S., Kou, K. & ITO, Y. 89-99 Induction of action potentials in fish red muscle by denervation

STANDEN, N..-B. & STANFIELD, P. R. 101L-110 A binding-site model for calcium chanmel inactivation that depends on calcium entry

EDMONDS, D. T. 111-115 Modelling the control mechanism of the sodium channel in the apical membrane of tight epithelia

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PROCEEDINGS OF

THE ROYAL SOCIETY

OF LONDON

S E RI&ES B VO LU MEA21 7

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

1982-83

PUBLISHED BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY 6 CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE LONDON SW1Y5AG

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The four numbers in this volume can be obtained separately from the Royal Society, 6 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG.

Printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Cambridge

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CONTENTS

SERIES B VOLUME 217

NUMBER 1206 22 DECEMBER 1982 REVIEW LECTURE. Developments in low-temperature biochemistry and

biology. By P. Douzou page 1 On the relation between fibre diameter and conduction velocity in

myelinated nerve fibres. By J. M. Ritchie, F.R.S. 29 The nervous system and ciliary band of Muller's larva.

By T. C. Lacalli. [Plates 1-8] 37 Plasma protein concentrations in interstitial fluid froin human aortas.

By Elspeth B. Smith and Eileen M. Staples 59 Regenerating mammalian nerve fibres: changes in action potential waveform

and firing characteristics following blockage of potassium conductance. By J. D. Kocsis, S. G. Waxman, C. Hildebrand and J. A. Ruiz. [Plate 1] 77

Induction of action potentials in fish red muscle by denervation. By S. Korenaga, K Kou and Y. Ito 89

A binding-site model for calcium channel inactivation that depends on calcium entry. By N. B. Standen and P. R. Stanfield 101

Modelling the control mechanism of the sodium channel in the apical membrane of tight epithelia. By D. T. Edmonds 111

NUMBER 1207 22 JANUARY 1983

Address of the President at the Anniversary Meeting, 30 November 1982. By Sir Andrew Huxley 117

The basal dendrites of Meynert cells in the striate cortex of the monkey. By D. A. Winfield, J. W. Neal and T. P. S. Powell, F.R.S. [Plates 1-3] 129

Electrical properties of neurons recorded from the rat supraoptic nucleus in vitro. By W. T. Mason. [Plate 1] 141

Regionally different optical systems in the compound eye of the water-flea Polyphemus (Cladocera, Crustacea). By D.-E. Nilsson and R. Odselius. [Plate 1] 163

Regionally different ommatidial structure in the compound eye of the water-flea Polyphemus (Cladocerca, Crustacea). By R. Odselius and D.-E. Nilsson. [Plates 1-4] 177

The ultrastructure of the cardiac Purkinje strand in the dog: a morpho- metric analysis. By B. R. Eisenberg and I. S. Cohen. [Plates 1-3] 191

Voltage-clamp studies on the canine Purkinje strand. By I. S. Cohen, R. T. Falk and R. P. Kline 215

Diuresis in newly emerged, unfed mosquitoes. II. The basic pattern in relation to escape from the water, preparation for mature flight, mating and the first blood meal. By J. D. Gillett 237

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iv Contents

NUMBER 1208 22 FEBRTUARY 1983

Regtulation of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (AldDH) in Aspergillus nidulans. By J. A. Pateman, F.R.S., C. H. Doy, J. E. Olsen, U. Norris, E. H. Creaser and M. Hynes 243

Daily changes in the compound eye of a beetle (M1lacrogyrus). By G. A. Horridge, F.R.S., L. Marcelja, R. Jahnke and P. McIntyre. [Plates 1-4] 265

Transduction as a limitation on compound eye function and design. By J. Howard and A. W. Snyder 287

Contrast-coding in amblyopia. I. Differences in the neural basis of human ambylopia. By R. F. Hess, A. Bradley and L. Piotrowski. [Plate 1] 309

Contrast-coding in amblyopia. II. On the physiological basis of contrast recruiitment. By R. F. Hess 331

Quantitative morphology of rabbit retinal ganglion cells. By F. R. Amthor, C. WV. Oyster and Ellen S. Takahashi. [Plates 1 and 2] 341

NUMBER 1209 22 MARCH 1983

THE LEEUWENHOEK LECTURE, 1982. Studies of microbial products in rising to the challenge of curing cancer. By H. Umezawa 357

Some effects of CO2 concentration and decreased 02 concentration on induction fluorescence in leaves. By M. N. Sivak and D. A. Walker, F.R.S. 377

Some effects of changes in gas phase on the steady-state chlorophyll a fluorescence exhibited by illuminated leaves. By M. N. Sivak, R. T. Prinsley and D. A. Walker, F.R.S. 393

Relations between electron transport and carbon assimilation; simultaneous measurement of chlorophyll fluorescence, transthylakoid pH gradient and 02 evolution in isolated chloroplasts. By P. Horton 405

The biology of a new gas-vacuolate cyanobacterium, Dactylococcopsis salina sp.nov., in Solar Lake. By A. E. Walsby, J. van Rijn and Y. Cohen. [Plate 1] 417

The distribution of wavelength and orientation selective cells in different areas of monkey visual cortex. By S. Zeki. [Plate 1] 449

An X-ray study of the physiological-temperature form of hen egg-white lysozyme at 2 A resolution. By J. Berthou, A. Lifchitz, P. Artymiuk and P. Jolles 471

Small-field, binocular neurons in the superficial layers of the frog optic tectum. By D. J. Finch and T. S. Collett 491

Indexes 499

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