PERGAMON PRESS For BOOKS RESEARCH JOURNALS MAJOR REFERENCE WORKS CURRENT AWARENESS SERVICES DATABASES REPORTS PUBLISHERS of RESEARCH and LEARNING in all forms: Traditional and Electronic Announcing New and Newly Acquired Journals For 1990 & 1991 Life Sciences & Medicine Engineering, Materials Science & Energy Annual Review of Addictions Research and Treatment Annual Review of Fish Diseases Chinese Medical Journal Journal of Vestibular Research: Equilibrium and Orientation Neuromuscular Disorders Veterinary Dermatology Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering Computing Systems in Engineering Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Expert Systems with Applications Mechatromcs Microgravity Quarterly Renewable Energy Welding Abstracts Physical Sciences The Astronomy Quarterly Atmospheric Environment, Part B: Urban Atmosphere Bioorgamc & Medicinal Chemistry Letters Chaos, Solitons and Fractals Computer Optics Quaternary International Tetrahedron: Asymmetry Pergamon Press pic Headington Hill Hall Oxford 0 X 3 OBW, UK Social & Behavioural Sciences Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Learning and Instruction Art & Music Leonardo Music Journal Pergamon Press Member of Maxwell Macmillan Pergamon Publishing Corporation Pergamon Press, Inc. Fairview Park Elmsford, NY 10523, USA PERGAMON SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING AT ITS BEST Clinical & Medical Research Electrical & Electronic Engineering Agriculture, Food Science & Nutrition Industrial Technology Civil & Structural Engineering Physiology & Biophysics Plant & Ecological Science Biological Sciences Information Science Visual Sciences Cancer Research Pharmacology Social Studies Chemistry Entomology Energy EFL/ELT Physics Biochemistry Mathematics Metallurgy Immunology Applied Chemistry Analytical Chemistry Neurosciences Mechanical Engineering Computer Science Astronomy & Astrophysics Chemical Engineering Education & Child Studies Psychology & Psychiatry Systems Engineering, Automation & Control Engineering Materials Science & Technology Economics & Social Planning Management Sciences & Business Studies Pergamon Press pic Headington Hill Hall Oxford OX3 OBW UK Geosciences & Oceanography Database Publications Environmental Science & Water Technology Pergamon Press Inc Maxwell House Fairview Park Elmsford NY 10523 USA Member of Maxwell Maanillan Pergamon Publishing Corporation SEND FOR A FREE SAMPli COPY OF... CURRENT ADVANCES IN PHARMACOLOGY & TOXICOLOGY Chief Editor: H SMITH, University of Leicester, UK Editorial Office: CABS Office, 132 New Walk, Leicester LEI 7QQ, UK Current Advances in Pharmacology & Toxicology is a monthly publication from the Current Awareness in Biological Sciences (CABS) Database, designed to provide biologists working in any area of the subject with a current literature searching service which is fast, comprehensive, economical and, above all, easy to use. By retrieving more than 42,000 titles annually, Current Advances in Pharmacology & Toxicology enables pure and applied pharmacologists and toxicologists to keep abreast of the ever-increasing literature being published in their subject area. More than 1,900 biological journals covering all aspects of pharmacology and toxicology are scanned to provide a subject-categorized listing of titles, authors, bibliographic details and authors' addresses. Titles are presented under appropriate subject headings with full crossreferencing. Reprints of any article cited in this journal can be ordered through a document delivery service. Full details are available on request. Major Subject Areas Covered Include Pharmacokinetics; Drug metabolism; Second messengers; Circulatory systems; Endocrine systems; Drugs affecting the CNS; Neurotransmitters and synaptic transmission; Autacoids; Chemotherapy of microbial diseases; Chemotherapy of neoplastic diseases; Immunopharmacology; Developmental and ageing pharmacology; Methods; Regulatory toxicology; Clinical toxicology; Mammalian toxicology; Xenobiotic metabolism; Toxic mechanisms and responses; Ecotoxicology. A Product Of The Current Awareness in Biological Sciences (CABS) Database available online via ORBIT Search Service and BRS Information Technologies (00739) 1991: Volume 8 (12 issues) Annual subscription (1991) DM 1400.00 Two-year rate (1991/92) DM 2660.00 ISSN: 0741-1685 This journal is also available at a non-institutional rate to scientists, please apply to the address below for further details PERGAMON PRESS Member of Maxwell Macmillan Pergamon Publishing Corporation Pergamon Press pic, Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 0BW, UK Pergamon Press, Inc., Maxwell House, Fairview Park, Elmsford NY 10523, USA Advertising rate card available on request. Back issues and current subscriptions are also available in microform. Prices shown include postage and insurance. German Mark (DM) prices quoted apply in Europe, Africa, Asia/Australasia (with the exception of Japan). For the rest of the world including Japan apply to the nearest Pergamon office. Prices and proposed publication dates are subject to change without prior notice. How can our library keep pace with the ever increasing flow of information in Science and Technology? : The Pergamon Press Subscription Profile Plan. More than ever before, libraries are pressed by the constant need to keep abreast of the ever changing and increasing dissemination of information. There is a greater need to find an easier way to monitor these developments; The Pergamon Press Subscription Profile plan offers the solution. What Are the Benefits? • Pergamon will supply a specially tailored list of our journals corresponding to your area(s) of interest. • In the subject areas you select, you will receive a complimentary copy of the first issue of any new Pergamon journal, published in your subject area. • 25% to 50% DISCOUNT on one-year/two-year new subscriptions. • A complimentary subscription to one of the following. Information Processing and Management Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory Government Publications Review Evaluation and Program Planning • Complimentary copies of the Pergamon Bulletin. • 50% DISCOUNT on back issues available to all participants in the Plan There is no obligation and no minimum purchase required to join the Plan. You may deal directly with Pergamon or through your Subscription Agent. The terms of the Ran are simple and the benefits great. Simply return the application below and we'll send you complete details regarding the plaa and the specially tailored list of appropriate Pergamon journals to you-with no further obligation to join. Listed Below is a Sampling of Pergamon's New Titles for 1991: Accounting, Management and Information Technologies Annual Review of Fish Diseases Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering Chaos, Solitons and Fractals Engineering Applications ot Artificial Intelligence Geophysics Abstracts Homeoslasls In Health & Disease Journal ol Vestibular Research: Equilibrium & Orientation learning and Instruction Neuromuscular Disorders Renewable Energy (incorporating Solar & Wind Technology) FREE SAMPLE COPIES OF THE ABOVE ARE AVAILABLE UPON PUBLICATION. TO RECEIVE COPIES, SIMPLY HIGHLIGHT THOSE OF INTEREST AND RETURN TO PERGAMON. D Our Library is interested in the Pergamon Profile Plan. Please send my specially tailored Sst of Pergamon journals in the foSowing subject area(s) Name Library: _ Institution: Street City State: _ -Zip. Return to: PERGAMON PRESS, INC. Maxwel House, faiview Park, Elmsford, New York. 10523 Histological & Histochemical Methods: Theory & Practice 2nd Edition J A K1ERNAN, Department of Anatomy, University of Western Ontario. London, Ctinatiu In order to encompass new methods likely to become standard in research, this second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to incorporate the latest histochemical developments. All aspects of staining and histocherrustry for light microscopy are covered, including fixation, use of dyes, enzyme biochemistry, immunohistochemistry and special methods for blood and cell suspensions and for nervous tissue. Instructions for methods follow the explanations of principles, with the chemicals and physical principles explained in detail, so that even those with minimal prior knowledge of chemistry will be able to follow the text. For students in all biological subjects using histological techniques, graduates, researchers in pathology and biological sciences and medical laboratory technologists. Contents: Introduction to microtechnique. Fixation. Decalcification and other treatments for hard tissues. Processing and mounting. Dyes. Histological staining in one or two colours. Staining blood and other cell suspensions. Methods for connective tissue. Methods for nucleic acids. Organic functional groups and protein histochemistry. Carbohydrate histochemistry. Lipids. Methods for inorganic ions. Enzyme histochemistry: general considerations. Hydrolytic enzymes. Oxidoreductases. Methods for soluble substances of low molecular weight. Neurohistologjcal techniques. Immunohistochemistry and other methods based on affinity. Miscellaneous data. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. 425pp (approx) 9 figures 500 lit refs (approx) 300 chemical structures Published April 1990 0 08 036223 0 (F) 0 08 036224 9 (H) O5.00/USW9.95 £49.<XVUS$98.00 Prices and proposed publication dates are subject to change without prior notice. Sterling prices quoted apply worldwide except in the Americas. US Dollar prices quoted apply in the Americas only. PERGAMON PRESS Heodington HIM Hall. Oxford. OX3 0BW, UK • Falrvlew Park. Gmsford, New York 10523. USA ALCOHOL AND ALCOHOLISM Volume 26 Number 1 1991 A. D. Thomson Editorial: Alcohol and Atcoholism welcomes the European Society for Biomedical-Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA) The third ESBRA congress. • A century of alcoholism conferences: unchanging themes Ethanol-induced alterations in the function of cerebral GABAA receptor complex: effect on GABA-dependent 36CI~ influx into cerebral membrane vesicles Characteristics of catecholamine release from adrenal chromaffin cells cultured in medium containing ethanol—I. Spontaneous and JC+-induced release Characteristics of catecholamine release from adrenal chromaffin cells cultured in medium containing ethanol—II. Carbachol and veratrine-induced release Bone collagen, mineral and trace element composition, histomorphometry and urinary hydroxyproline excretion in chronically-treated alcohol-fed rats Pituitary gonadal functioning in male alcoholics in an Indian psychiatric hospital Announcement M. T. Malcolm T. Ueha and K. Kuriyama 3 5 17 J. C. Harper and J. M. Littleton 25 J. C. Harper and J. M. Littleton 33 V. R. Preedy, D. R. Baldwin, J. W. Keating and J. R. Salisbury 39 S. N. Sengupta, R. Ray, K. Taranath Shetty and N. G. Desai 47 D. Mascord, J. Smith, G. A. Starmer 53 The effect of fructose on alcohol metabolism and on the [lactate]/[pyruvate] ratio in man 61 71 Does alcohol modify responses to reward in a competitive task? The effects of alcohol and other drugs on psychomotor performance and cognitive function A three-sample test of a masked alcohol screening questionnaire Alcohol consumption in young adults in the rural communities of Spain Book Review Notices * and J. B. Whitfield A. Bond and M: Lader I. Hindmarch, J. S. Kerr and N. Sherwood M. F. Fleming and K. L. Barry F. J. .Alvarez, D. Queipo, M. C. Del Rio and M. C. Garcia 81 93 103 105 Pergamon Press Indexed/abstracted irr Curr. Com ASCA. ASSIA. Biosis Data, Chemical Abstracts Service, Curr. Cont.lCh. Med , Cur" Com.I Life Set., CABS, Excerp. Med., Health & Saf. Sa. Abstr., Curr. Com. ISl/BIOMED Database, MEDL1NE, Psychoi. Abstr , Sociol Abstr., Curr. Com. Sa. Cil. Ind , Curr. Com. SCISEARCH Data., Ind. Med. Printed in Great Britain by Nuffield Press Ltd 251