Mechanisms and Consequences of Proton Transport

This volume represents the proceedings of the 9th International Proton Transport Conference, "Mechanisms and Consequences of Proton Transport" held in Leura, Australia, August 19 -21, 200 I. This conference has been held since 1971 every 3 to 4 years with few exceptions in association with the Congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences. The first meeting was held in Frankfurt, Germany, at the Max-Planck'Institute. Countries hosting the conference have been Germany (twice), Sweden (twice), India, Canada, USA, Great Britain, and now Australia. Over the past 30 years participants at these Proton Transport Conferences have been principal contributors to the major discoveries in the physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology of gastric acid secretion. These include development of the H2-receptor blockers, defining the signaling pathways for the regulation of acid secretion, identifying the gastric proton pump, discovery and development of proton pump inhibitory drugs, and elucidating the physiology and biochemistry of Helicobacter pylori.

Tetsuro Urushidani is an associate professor in the Laboratory of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo. John G. Forte is a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley. George Sachs is Director of the Membrane Biology Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles, Professor of Physiology and Medicine, UCLA, Wilshire Chair in Medicine, UCLA, and Co-Director of the Center for Ulcer Research and Education, UCLA.