Catecholamines are stored in stable, concentrated form inside storage granules in the nerve endings and in the adrenal gland. Our knowledge of how catecholamines are taken up into the storage granule is limited to the concept that there is some type of energy driven uptake process involving a carrier which acts to shuttle the catecholamines into the interior of the granule. According to one school of thought, a Mg ATPase located in the membrane acts as a proton pump and the resulting electrochemical gradients act as a driving force for the shuttle mechanism. Our knowledge of the carrier itself, its affinity for catecholamines and how the shuttle uses the energy provided by the electrochemical gradient is very limited. The long range goal of the principal investigator is toproduct description page

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The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings.

In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure.