Textbook of Ion Channels Volume III: Regulation, Physiology, and Diseases (Textbook of Ion Channels, 3) (PDF)

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This is a three-volume set on ion channels, which are important membrane proteins that control the electrical properties of cells and are critical for human health. Volume III covers key ion channel regulators, their role in physiological systems, and examples of their dysfunction in certain diseases. It includes information on splice variants, calcium regulation, G proteins, lipids, ion channels in the heart, immune cells, pancreatic beta cells and insulin secretion, as well as sperm and eggs. The book offers an introduction to fundamental concepts in ion channel mechanisms, technical aspects of ion channel research, and a modern guide to major ion channel families. It is published by CRC Press and is available as an eBook with 234 pages.

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Textbook of Ion Channels Volume III: Regulation, Physiology, and Diseases (Textbook of Ion Channels, 3) (PDF Book)

By Jie Zheng, Matthew C. Trudeau

The Textbook of Ion Channels is a set of three volumes that provides a wide-ranging reference source on ion channels for students, instructors and researchers. Ion channels are membrane proteins that control the electrical properties of neurons and cardiac cells; mediate the detection and response to sensory stimuli like light, sound, odor, and taste; and regulate the response to physical stimuli like temperature and pressure. In non-excitable tissues, ion channels are instrumental for the regulation of basic salt balance that is critical for homeostasis. Ion channels are located at the surface membrane of cells, giving them the unique ability to communicate with the environment, as well as the membrane of intracellular organelles, allowing them to regulate internal homeostasis. Ion channels are fundamentally important for human health and diseases, and are important targets for pharmaceuticals in mental illness, heart disease, anesthesia, pain and other clinical applications. The modern methods used in their study are powerful and diverse, ranging from single ion-channel measurement techniques to models of ion channel diseases in animals, and human clinical trials for ion channel drugs.

Volume III includes coverage of key ion channel regulators and their mechanisms, the role of ion channels working in concert in selected physiological systems, and examples of ion channel mutations and dysfunction in a selection of diseases. Chapters on ion channel regulation include splice variants, calcium–calmodulin regulation, regulation by G proteins, and lipids. A selection of ion channels in physiological systems includes ion channels of the heart, ion channels in immune cells and their role in pancreatic beta cells and regulation of insulin secretion, and the role of channels in sperm and eggs. While disease mechanisms are integrated into the chapters of Volume II, Volume III offers special consideration of ion channels in epilepsy, cystic fibrosis and pain syndromes.

All three volumes give the reader an introduction to fundamental concepts needed to understand the mechanism of ion channels, a guide to the technical aspects of ion channel research, offer a modern guide to the properties of major ion channel families, and include coverage of key examples of regulatory, physiological, and disease roles for ion channels.