L------------------------------------------- Kathy Ruppel, Ken Niebling
and JeffFiner for their help and comments on the first draft. I am also
grateful for discussions with and comments from Dr Neil Miliar,
Professor Bob Simmons, Dr Roger Cooke, Dr Tosbio Yanagida, Dr John
Kendrick-Jones, Dr Rob Cross, Dr Ian Trayer, Dr John Sparrow, Dr Michael
Geeves, Dr Bernhard Brennerand Dr Peter K. night. The task of
illustrating the book was made much easier by the photographs and
diagrams kindly provided by Professor Ken Holmes, Dr Ron Milligan,
Professor Basil Northover, Dr Hans Warrick, Dr John Squire, Dr JetT
Harford, Dr Mary Reedy, Dr A vril Somlyo, Dr Darl Swartz, Dr Marion
Greaser, Dr Peter Knight, Dr Gerald OtTer, Dr Roger Craig, Dr Peter
Vibert, Dr John Kendrick-Jones, Dr Andrew Jackson, Dr Don Winkelmann, Dr
Andrew Sowerby and Dr Richard Ankrett. I am grateful to the Science and
Engineering Research Council for funding my travel to Stanford
University. Permission to reproduce copyrighted material from the
following publishers is gratefully acknowledged. The Physiological
Society (Figs 2. 6, 6. 1, 6. 11, 6. 12, 7. 6), The RockefeBer University
Press (Figs 3. 5, 4. 8, 8. 3), Academic Press(Figs3. 4,4. 4,4. 15, 9. 1,
9. 2), MacmillanPress(Figs 4. 2, 4. 3, 4. 12, 4. 13, 6. 6, 6. 9, 7. 8,
9. 3), Longman Group (Fig. 6. 7), The Royal Society (Fig. 3. 7) and D.
W. Fawcett (Fig. 3. 1).
