CONCLUSIONS AND COMMENTS - 10TH INTERNATIONAL-SYMPOSIUM ON CHOLINERGIC MECHANISMS

Ancient medicine men of Egypt and Arabia employed, under another name, the cholinergic agents, as did the hunters, warriors and shamans of A frica and South America. An explosion of cholinergic science occurred in the last and the current century, and the ISCMs witnessed and catal yzed this progress. The Xth ISCM emphasized the molecular characterist ics of the receptors, cholinesterase and of the system engaged in libe ration of Ach. ((C) Elsevier, Paris).