In the last decade, research on platelet-activating factor (PAF) has expanded exponentially. Previous conferences on PAF in Paris, 1983, and the subsequent conferences in Gatlinburg, Ten- nessee, Tokyo, Snowbird, Utah, and Berlin, at three-yearly intervals, have chronicled the devel- opments in the field ofPAF. This volume records the proceedings of the Fifth International Con- gress on PAF and Related Lipid Mediators, held at the Free University Medical Hospital Ben- jamin Franklin in Berlin, from September 12-16, 1995. We are very much indebted to Free Uni- versity Berlin for providing...

This volume constitutes, in part, the proceedings of the Hong Kong Conference on "Eicosanoids and Other Bioactive Lipids in Cancer, Inflammation, and Radiation Injury" held in Hong Kong in October 1995. It contains papers by the symposium speakers, as well as poster contributions from researchers in this field. Since the discovery of "PROSTAGLANDIN-LIKE' substances 60 years ago. much has been learned. EICOSANOID is the new term that is used to include prostaglandins. thromboxanes, leukotrienes, lipoxins, isoprostanes, depoxilins, hydroxy acids, epoxy and hydroperoxy fatty acids. The...