Cell surface receptors are multifunctional proteins with binding sites towards the external environment and effector sites which mediate intracellular events. The purpose of this symposium was to bring together investigators who have a com mon interest in those receptors which are located in the liver, and who have studied endocytic mechanisms for various macromolecules like insulin, lipoproteins, epi dermal growth factor and others. Experiments in this particular field of research date back to the early 60-ies but have only recently led to new and important in sight in the molecular basis of...

Symposium on Lipoprotein Metabolism, held in Heidelberg, September 10-13, 1975

Probleme des Lipidstoffwechsels beruhren zahlreiche Bereiche der arztlichen Tatigkeit in Praxis und Klinik. Hyperlipidamien sind die haufigsten Stoffwechselstorungen geworden als Risikofaktor arte- riosklerotischer Erkrankungen sind sie mitverantwortlich fUr die haufigste Todesursache, den Herzinfarkt. Der vorliegende Handbuchband spiegelt die Fortschritte unserer Kenntnis uber den normalen und gestorten Fettstoffwechsel wider. 38 internationale Autoren behandeln die physiologischen und patho- physiologischen Grundlagen der Lipide und Lipoproteine, primare und sekundare Hyperlipoproteinamien,...