第四次国际Na,K-ATP酶学术会议于一九八四年八月五日至十日在英国剑桥大学召开。来自廿四个国家的一百二十八名代表参加了会议。其中绝大部分代表来自西欧、北欧各国和美国。直接来自亚洲的只有五名日本代表。我是以中国访问学者的身份在荷兰内依梅根大学医学院生化系进行有关Na,K-ATP酶合作研究项目期间,因向会议提交了两篇研究论文而有幸参加这次专业学术会议的。另有一名来自美国俄亥俄州立医学院的美籍华人(原籍台湾)。 Na,K-ATP酶是存在于哺乳动物细胞质膜上的负责细胞内外Na~+、K~+转运的重要成分,是通常所说的“钠泵”的酶学基础。自从1957年丹麦学者Skou首次发表细胞膜存在Na,K-ATP酶的论文之后,在六十年代陆续发表了其它学者对于这个酶的各方面研究文章。尤其在1974年丹麦的Jorgensen发表Na,K-ATP酶纯化制备方法之后,有关Na,K-ATP酶的性 The fourth international conference on Na, K-ATPase was held at the University of Cambridge, UK from August 5 to August 8, 1984. One hundred twenty-eight delegates from twenty-four countries attended the meeting. The vast majority of the delegates come from Western Europe, the Nordic countries and the United States. There are only five Japanese delegates coming directly from Asia. During my cooperation project on Na, K-ATPase in the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Imegan in the Netherlands, as a visiting scholar in China, I was fortunate to attend this conference because I submitted two research papers to the conference . Another American Chinese from the Ohio State Medical School (originally from Taiwan). Na, K-ATPase is present in the mammalian plasma membrane responsible for intracellular Na ~ +, K ~ + transport of important components, is the so-called “sodium pump” based on the enzyme. Since 1957, when Skou, a Danish scholar, first published a paper on the existence of Na, K-ATPase in the cell membrane, other scholars published various articles on this enzyme in the 1960s. Especially after Jorgensen of Denmark published the method of purifying Na, K-ATPase in 1974, the relatedness of Na, K-ATPase