Enzymes and Drug Action [antikvár]

PREFACE This symposium is the eighth in the series organized by the Co-ordinating Committee for Symposia on Drug Action. In choosing so general a subject as Enzymes and Drug Action it was hoped to take account of some of the many growing points in biochemistry which are likely to be of importance for future advances in pharmacology. The symposium was divided into two parts. The first took the form of a meeting at the Wellcome Building with papers and discussion before an audience of about three hundred. The second took the form of a small meeting at the Ciba Foundation consisting almost entirely of unscripted discussion by a panel of about thirty participants. The proceedings at these two meetings are published in separate sections of the present volume as one of the series of Ciba Foundation Symposia. It is edited jointly by the Co-ordinating Committee for Symposia on Drug Action and by the Ciba Foundation. The main responsibility for the meeting lay in the hands of the British Pharmacological Society with the co-operation of the Biocheinical Society, the Physiological Society and the Royal Society of Medicine. The Organizing Committee consisted of W. A. Bain, F. Bergel (Chairman), A. C. Dornhorst, H. McIlwain, J. L. Mongar (Secretary) and H. O. Schild. The Committee is grateful to the Wellcome Foundation for the facilities provided at the Wellcome Building, to the Wellcome Trust for financing the Symposium, and to the Ciba Foundation not only for generous hospitality and travelling expenses for some of the overseas ^ members, and for providing a unique Conference Room whos^e intimate atmosphere provided an ideal setting for the seconcT part of the meeting, but also for the excellent editorial facilities which make possible the early appearance of the proceedings of the symposium.