Intracellular calcium / / by Anthony K. Campbell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910677916403321
• Autore: Campbell Anthony K.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chichester, England : , : Wiley, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-118-67553-3; 1-118-67541-X; 0-470-69511-0; 1-118-67552-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (842 p.)
• Disciplina: 574.87/61
• Soggetti: Calcium
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Volume one -- Setting the scene - what is so special about calcium? -- Intracellular calcium : principles and terminology -- One hundred years plus of intracellular calcium -- How to study intracellular calcium -- How Ca2+ is regulated inside cells -- How Ca2+ works inside cells -- Volume two -- How Ca2+ regulates animal cell physiology -- Calcium in micro-organisms -- Calcium in plants and fungi -- The pathology of intracellular Ca2+ -- The pharmacology of intracellular Ca2+ -- Darwin and 4000 million years of intracellular Ca2+ -- They think it's all over!.
• Sommario/riassunto: Thousands of imaginative scientists, over more than a century, have revealed the fascinating story of intracellular calcium, through a pathway of ingenious invention and discovery. Intracellular Calcium, the definitive book on this topic, reveals: The pathway of discovery and invention of intracellular calcium over more than 100 years.The evidence for intracellular calcium as a universal switch in all animal, plant, fungal and microbial cellsHow the components required for calcium signalling are named and classified.The ingenious technology, which has been developed to study intracellular c