'outstanding monograph ... It provides an invaluable review of work in the foremost school of electrophysiology in the old Soviet Union, including much data that was heretofore only available in the original Russian.'
Aslib Book Guide, Vol. 57, No. 10, October 1992
Action of calcium ions on the surface of nerve cells; Calcium conductance of the neuronal membrane; Gating mechanisms of calcium channels; Inactivation of calcium channels; Pharmacological characteristics and molecular structure of calcium channels; Modulation of calcium-channel functioning; Development of calcium conductance during ontogenesis; Fate of calcium ions in the nerve cell; Functional role of calcium ions in the nerve cell; General conclusions; References;
Index.