Claus W. Heizmann and Katharina Braun ore than 10,000 articles were published in 1994 on calcium, M 2 emphasizing the widespread interest and progress in Ca + 2 related research. This book focuses mainly on Ca + -binding pro 2 teins in the central nervous system, where Ca + ions have been found to activate fundamental processes such as release of neu rotransmitters, axonal flow, long term potentiation, cell motility, differentiation, secretion, and apoptosis. It has also been found that a number of neurodegenerative disorders have been attributed 2 1 to aberrations of intracellular Ca +...