This volume is dedicated to Professor Ullrich Trendelenburg. It contains
the proceedings of a symposium which was held in his honour on the
occasion of his retirement and took place March 22-24, 1991 in
Wiirzburg. Ullrich Trendelenburg was the head of the Department of
Pharmacology at Wiirzburg University from 1968 till the end of March
1991. He is famous internationally for his contributions to the
physiology and pharmacology of the autonomic nervous system, and his
impact on pharmacology in general throughout the world has been
outstanding. The various phases of his life and his career have been
delineated recently by Youdim and Riederer (Journal of Neural
Transmission; Suppl. 32, 1990). The articles included in this volume
reflect a considerable range of current research work dealing with
various aspects of neuropharmacology, i. e., the field of research
Ullrich Trendelenburg has influenced most. One or more authors of each
chapter are either former or present students and coworkers or close
friends of Ullrich Trendelenburg. The first section is devoted to the
synthesis and metabolism of catecholamines as well as to the mechanisms
by which amine transmitters are removed from the extracellular fluid;
three chapters deal with the two types of extraneuronal uptake of
catecholamines. The second section concentrates on the release of
catecholamines in the peripheral and the central nervous system, the
regulation of transmitter release and the noradrenaline-ATP co-transmis-
sion. The third section deals with the pharmacology of various
receptors, including agrenoceptors, adenosine, 5-HT and glutamate
receptors.
