Volume 262 Issue 5569, 12 August 1976

Energy from warm rocks

• Ron Oxburgh

Adjust, amend and heal

• Wil Lepkowski

USA: Coping with variability

• Wil Lepkowski

Britain: Genetic manipulation: report due

• Eleanor Lawrence

UK Energy

In Brief

Mountain streets

• THOMAS H. JUKES

Chromatin superstructure

• H. G. Davies

A hundred years ago

Anaesthetic mechanisms

• C. D. Richards

New giant Soviet radiotelescope

• Boris Belitzky

Aspects of plasmid behaviour

• J. R. Saunders

Iliopoulos wins his bet

• F. E. Close

Britain in European space

• David W. Hughes

Aphids, ants and pheromones

Phase changes at 650 km

• Peter J. Smith

Small-angle scattering experiments on biological materials using synchrotron radiation

• J. Bordas
• I. H. Munro
• A. M. Glazer

Model for action of local anaesthetics

• A. G. Lee

Dietary practices and growth responses as predictors of longevity

• M. H. Ross
• E. Lustbader
• G. Bras

gag Gene of mammalian type-C RNA tumour viruses

• Mariano Barbacid
• John R. Stephenson
• Stuart A. Aaronson

Solar neutrinos and solar accretion of interstellar matter

• MICHAEL J. NEWMAN
• RAYMOND J. TALBOT JR

Solar neutrinos and galactic contamination of the Sun

• J. R. AUMAN
• W. H. MCCREA

Climatic effects during passage of the Solar System through interstellar clouds

• RAYMOND J. TALBOT JR
• DIXON M. BUTLER
• MICHAEL J. NEWMAN

Hard X-ray observations of Circinus X-1 during an outburst

• M. J. COE
• A. R. ENGEL
• J. J. QUENBY

New H₂O maser near NGC7538

• R. GENZEL
• D. DOWNES

The identity of lunar hydrolysable carbon

• A. J. T. JULL
• G. EGLINTON
• B. D. BATTS

Implications of metal dispersion from submarine hydrothermal systems for mineral exploration on mid-ocean ridges and in island arcs

• D. S. CRONAN

Observation of the interference of neutrons reflected from thin films

• J. B. HAYTER
• J. PENFOLD
• W. G. WILLIAMS

Optical methods to select diamonds of very high lattice perfection

• E. M. WILKS

Ordered states in systems of macroscopic particles

• WILLIAM VAN MEGEN
• IAN SNOOK

Polymer effects on microjet impact and cavitation erosion

• R. Y. TING

Leaf cultivar influences composition and ripening of apples

• G. D. BLANPIED
• L. L. CREASY
• L. W. LEWIS

Watering converts a CAM plant to daytime CO₂ uptake

• TERRY L. HARTSOCK
• PARK S. NOBEL

Memory phases in Drosophila

• WILLIAM G. QUINN
• YADIN DUDAI

Maintenance of fluid volume in the starfish water vascular system

• ROBERT D. PRUSCH
• FREDERICK WHORISKEY

Evolution of responses to relative homozygosity

• JON SEGER

Non-random inactivation of X chromosome in the rat yolk sac

• NORIO WAKE
• NOBUO TAKAGI
• MOTOMICHI SASAKI

Parallel distribution of sister chromatid exchanges and chromosome aberrations

• NORIFUMI UEDA
• HIROSHI UENAKA
• TAKETOSHI SUGIYAMA

Communication through fimbriae during conjugation in a fungus

• ALAN W. DAY

Induction of “natural killer” cells by BCG

• SETH A. WOLFE
• DANIEL E. TRACEY
• CHRISTOPHER S. HENNEY

Spleen cells from Schistosoma mansoni-infected mice produce diffusible stimulator of eosinophilopoiesis in vivo

• ALAN M. MILLER
• DANIEL G. COLLEY
• MICHAEL P. MCGARRY

Novel approach to the treatment of hydatid disease

• AMIN I. KASSIS
• CHARLES E. TANNER

Identification of breast cancer transcortin and its inhibitory role in cell-mediated immunity

• LEONARD AMARAL
• SEYMOUR WERTHAMER

Cyclic nucleotide-dependent phosphorylation of intestinal epithelium proteins

• HUGO R. DE JONGE

In vitro inhibition of cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase by cortisol

• J. SCHMIDTKE
• Th. WIENKER
• W. ENGEL

(−)-Propranolol inhibits the behavioural responses of rats to increased 5-hydroxytryptamine in the central nervous system

• A. R. GREEN
• D. G. GRAHAME-SMITH

Decreased uptake of 5-hydroxytryptamine in blood platelets from depressed patients

• JOUKO TUOMISTO
• ERKKI TUKIAINEN

Reduction of quantum contents of synaptic potentials after postsynaptic axotomy

• H. R. BRENNER

Re-examination of avian cochlear potentials

• MARTHA PIERSON
• PETER DALLOS

Rod–cone mechanism underlying the Purkinje shift

• D. A. PALMER

Effects of enkephalin and morphine on Renshaw cells in feline spinal cord

• J. DAVIES
• A. DRAY

Depression of nociceptive and other neurones in the brain by iontophoretically applied met-enkephalin

• R. G. HILL
• C. M. PEPPER
• J. F. MITCHELL

Changes in amino acid sensitivity during polypeptide ‘desensitisation’

• J. DAVIES
• A. DRAY

Hypothermia and intolerance to cold induced by intracisternal administration of the hypothalamic peptide neurotensin

• GARTH BISSETTE
• CHARLES B. NEMEROFF
• MORRIS A. LIPTON

Pancreatic gastrin in foetal and neonatal rats

• L.-I. LARSSON
• J. F. REHFELD
• R. HÅKANSON

Kinetics of reaction in calcium-activated skinned muscle fibres

• D. G. MOISESCU

X-ray titration of binding of β, γ-imido-ATP to myosin in insect flight muscle

• R. S. GOODY
• J. BARRINGTON LEIGH
• G. ROSENBAUM

Phosphorylation of troponin I and the inotropic effect of adrenaline in the perfused rabbit heart

• R. J. SOLARO
• A. J. G. MOIR
• S. V. PERRY

Increase in human skeletal muscle lactate produced by fenfluramine

• MARILYN J. KIRBY
• P. TURNER

Ribosome slowed by mutation to streptomycin resistance

• DAVID J. GALAS
• ELBERT W. BRANSCOMB

Regulation of ribosomal RNA methylation in a temperature-sensitive mutant of BHK cells

• ANDRE J. OUELLETTE
• EVERETT BANDMAN
• AJIT KUMAR

Restriction of template capacity of rat liver chromatin by a non-histone peptide from calf thymus

• G. L. GIANFRANCESCHI
• D. AMICI
• L. GUGLIELMI

Independence of plasmid incompatibility and replication control functions in Staphylococcus aureus

• RICHARD P. NOVICK
• MARJORIE SCHWESINGER

Low angle X-ray diffraction patterns of squid retina

• C. R. WORTHINGTON
• S. K. WANG
• C. M. FOLZER

Corrigendum

Erratum

Erratum

Ionic clustering and collagen specificity

• BARBARA BRODSKY DOYLE
• DAVID W. L. HUKINS
• JOHN WOODHEAD-GALLOWAY

Ionic clustering and collagen specificity (reply)

• PIEZ
• TORCHIA

Retinal sensitivity to short wavelength light

• J. MARSHALL
• R. A. WEALE

Retinal sensitivity to short wavelength light (reply)

• HAM

Exudate-eating and tree-gouging in marmosets

• ADELMAR F. COIMBRA-FILHO
• RUSSELL A. MITTERMEIER

Meeting the challenge of astronomy

• Paul Davies

Meeting the challenge of astronomy

• John E. Beckman

Mössbauer again

• G. Longworth

Pharmacological marriage

• Steven Matthysse

Archaeological classic

• C. D. Morris

Global aspects of primary production

• Peter D. Moore

David Clarke

• Andrew Sherratt

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