Progress In Tryptophan And Serotonin Research : Proceedings. Fourth Meeting of the International Study Group for Tryptophan Research ISTRY, Martinsried, Federal Republic of Germany, April 19-22, 1983

Frontmatter -- Preface -- CONTENTS -- OPENING SESSION -- Adolf Butenandt's Work on the Metabolism of Tryptophan / Biekert, E. -- Tryptophan, the Heart of the Toxic Peptides from Amanita Mushrooms / Wieland, Th. -- Forty Years of Trypto-Fun / Witkop, Bernhard -- Indoleamine Dioxygenase - a Possible Biological Function / Hayaishi, Osamu / Yoshida, Ryotaro / Takikawa, Osamu / Yasui, Hiroaki -- QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRYPTOPHAN AND ITS METABOLITES -- Liquid Chromatography/Electrochemistry Determination of Biogenic Amines: Improved Performance Using Low Dead Volume Multiple Electrode Transducers / Kissinger, P. T. -- GLC and HPLC Analysis of Tryptophan, Kynurenine and Related Metabolites / Joseph, M. H. -- Monitoring of Tryptophan Levels in Biological Fluids by HPLC: An Improved Method / Bettero, Antonio / Costa, Carlo / Allegri, Graziella -- Rapid Determination of Tryptophan and its Metabolitesalong the Kynurenine Pathway by HPLC / Costa, Carlo / Bettero, Antonio / Allegri, Graziella -- HPLC-Analysis of Xanthurenic Acid and its 8-Methyl-Ether / Schrijver, Jaap / Schaik, Frank van / Greef, Jan van der / Bos, Klaas D. / Schreurs, Wil H. P. -- Free and Total Tryptophan Microdetermination by an Automated Fluorometric Method / Bigot, Jean-Claude / Moineau, Marie-Pierre / Menez, Jean-François / Bardou, Louis-Georges -- Comparison of HPLC and GC-MS Methods for the Determination of Tryptophan and its Indole Metabolites in Biological Samples / Martínez, Emili / Adell, Albert / Suñol, Cristina / Artigas, Francesc / Tusell, Josep M. / Gelpí, Emili -- Pineal Indoles: Their Determination by High Performance Liquid Chromatography and the Influence of Diurnal Variation and Tryptophan Administration on their Level in the Rat / Young, Simon N. / Anderson, George M. -- Higher-Order Derivative Spectrophotometry for the Quantitative Determination of Tryptophan, Tyrosine and Phenylalanine in Two- and Three-Component Mixtures, Peptides and Proteins / Talsky, Gerhard / Tichy, Sibylle -- The Application of a Spectrofluorometer-Optical- Multichannel Analyzer System to the Determination of Tryptophan / Steinhart, Hans / Stützle, Petra -- Picomole Determination of Tryptophan by Derivatization to 9-Hydroxymethyl-ß-Carboline / Takai, Katsuji / Inoue, Shintaro -- Determination of Tryptophan in Food after Alkaline Hydrolysis: An Evaluation / Nielsen, Henrik K. / Hurrell, Richard F. -- Colorimetric Determination of Tryptophan in Corn-Cob Mix (CCM) / Votisky, Erika -- Comparison of Tryptophan Assays for Food Proteins / Friedman, Mendel / Levin, Carol E. / Noma, Amy T. / Montague, William C. / Zahnley, James C. -- WORKSHOP: ANALYSIS OF TRYPTOPHAN -- Discussion at the Workshop on "Analysis of Tryptophan" / Friedman, Mendel -- TRYPTOPHAN AND SEROTONIN: NEUROBIOLOGY -- Tryptophan Transport to the Brain: Newer Findings and Older Ones Reconsidered / Curzon, G. / Sarna, G. S. -- Tryptophan Availability and Serotonin Synthesis in Rat Brain: Effects of Experimental Diabetes / Fernstrom, John D. -- Anatomy and Function of Central Serotoninergic Neurons / Baumgarten, Hans Georg / Schlossberger, Hans Georg -- Serotonin Receptor Binding Sites: Localization and Role in the Brain and Peripheral Tissues / Leysen, Josée E. -- Involvement of 5-HT2 (S2)- Receptor Sites in the Serotonin-Induced Activation of Cat Platelets / De Clerck, Fred / Xhonneux, Benoit / Gommeren, Walter / Leysen, Josée -- The Regulation of 5-Hydroxytryptamine Release from Superfused Synaptosomes by Tryptophan / Suter, Hugh A. / Collard, Keith J. -- Selective Increases in High Affinity Tryptophan Transport in Synaptosomes from Different Brain Areas Incubated in Sodium-Free Media / Wilkinson, Lawrence S. / Price, Christopher J. / Collard, Keith J. -- Formation and Function of Tetrahydro-ß-Carbolines with Special Reference to their Action on [3H] - Tryptamine Binding Sites / Rommelspacher, H. / Brüning, G. -- Regulations of Serotonergic Neurons Innervating the Basal Ganglia: In vivo