Author Report for: Heilbronn EContact information:Heilbronn EdithStockholm University, Dept Neurochemistry & Neurotoxicology, S-10691 StockholmSwedenPhone : 46 8164269 Fax : 46 8161371 Edith Heilbronn was born in 1925, in Furth, Northern Bavaria. and died on May 11, 1999. She was the main instigator of the series of International Symposia on Cholinergic Mechanisms. The first (1970) she organised in Skokloster, an old castle near Uppsala. She was the head of the Biochemistry Department of the Swedish Defence Research Establishment in Uppsala. She worked on the O/P nerve gases, then on the isolation of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and the induction of an experimental form of myasthenia gravis by injecting it into rabbits. A tribute to her work was given by Victor P Whittaker at the 11th international symposium on cholinergic mechanisms (St Moritz) in 2002 (Whittaker 2004). (only selected references for ESTHER.
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