"Symposium on Cell Fusion, held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 17-19 May, 1983"--P. v.
Editors: David Evered (organizer) and Julie Whelan.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lessons for the study of membrane fusion from membrane interactions in phospholipid systems / V.A. Parsegian, R.P. Rand, D. Gingel -- Fusogenic mechanisms / Jack A. Lucy -- Non-bilayer structures in membrane fusion / A.J. Verkleij, J. Leunissen-Bijvelt, B. de Kruijff, M. Hope, P.R. Cullis -- Electro-fusion of cells: principles and potential for the future / U. Zimmermann, J. Vienken, G. Pilwat, W.M. Arnold -- Molecular aspects of sperm-egg fusion / Bennett M. Shapiro -- Myoblast fusion and inositol phospholipid breakdown : causal relationship or coincidence? / Michael J. O. Wakelam, Dirk Pette -- Plant-animal cell fusions / Edward C. Cocking -- Transfer of plasma membrane proteins between cells using reconstituted membrane vesicles as shuttle vehicles / Darrell Doyle, Heinz Baumann -- Insertion of EGF receptors into target cells in the absence of fusogenic agents / Manjusri Das, Subal Bishayee -- The use of specific antibodies to mediate fusion between Sendai virus envelopes and living cells / A. Loyter, M. Tomasi, A.G. Gitman, L. Etinger, O. Nussbaum -- What determines the degradation rate of an injected protein? / Martin Rechsteiner, David Chin, Ronald Hough, Thomas McGarry, Scott Rogers, Kevin Rote, Lily Wu -- Degradative fate of transplanted proteins / R. John Mayer, Peter Evans, Susan Russell, Joe S. Amenta -- Expression of mRNAs microinjected into somatic cells / Julio E. Celis -- Immunospecific vesicle targeting facilitates fusion with selected cell populations / J. Guyden, W. Godfrey, B. Doe, F. Ousley, L. Wofsy -- Liposomes for gene transfer and expression in vivo / Claude Nicolau, Alain Legrand, Philippe Soriano.