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Brain, Vol. 125, No. 2, 437-439, January 1, 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

Book Review

NITRIC OXIDE AND FREE RADICALS IN PERIPHERAL NEUROTRANMISSION

Dr Simon Heales

Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK

NITRIC OXIDE AND FREE RADICALS IN PERIPHERAL NEUROTRANSMISSION.
By Stanley Kalsner.2000. Basel: Birkhauser Verlag AG.
Price $89.95. Pp. 357. ISBN 3-81764-0070-3..

This book represents the 2nd volume in a series entitled Nitric Oxide in Biology and Medicine. My initial reaction when considering this book was: not another book on nitric oxide (NO)! However, this feeling soon disappeared when I started to read the book.

A major benefit of this book is that each of the 15 chapters are almost stand-alone reviews written by the appropriate experts in the field. Furthermore, there is little overlap and each chapter is self-contained, i.e. a (comprehensive) reference list is included at the end of the chapter. In addition, in the majority of the chapters, actual experimental data is shown in order to support the various concepts and hypotheses being discussed.

The first chapter of the volume considers the origin and evolution of nitric oxide signalling. A . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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