title: A twenty-year trip through the chromaffin cell.
abstract: Described here is the origin of a fruitful, long-lasting, and friendly international group of scientists whose main interests are chromaffin cells and exocytosis. Meetings have been held every two years in different countries of Europe and North America, and in Japan, Australia, and Israel. We have no formal society or written rules, and our intention is good science and friendship. The first of our International Symposia on Chromaffin Cell Biology (ISCCB-1) was held in Ibiza (Spain) in 1982, and the most recent (ISCCB-11) was held in San Diego (USA) in 2001. These symposia are attended by 100-150 scientists from most European countries, Japan, Israel, the United States, Canada, South America, and Australia. The interest in the chromaffin cell as a model for studying basic mechanisms of calcium signaling, cell-cell communication, exocytosis, and membrane and vesicle trafficking has been wide; I predict that this interest will grow in the coming years.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Teófilo Hernando, Departamento de Farmacología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autóma de Madrid, C/ Arzobispo Morcillo, 4, 28029, Madrid, Spain. agg@uam.es
authors.forename: Antonio G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Garcia
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D002450:Cell Communication; D019439:Chromaffin Cells / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000502:physiology*; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D005089:Exocytosis; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D002118:Calcium