Mammalian Transient Receptor Potential (TRP) Cation Channels Volume II /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nilius, Bernd (Editor), Flockerzi, Veit (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, 223
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Molecular biology.; Pharmacology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Human Physiology.; Molecular Medicine.

In this fast moving field the main goal of this volume is to provide up-to-date information on the molecular and functional properties and pharmacology of mammalian TRP channels. Leading experts in the field describe properties of a single TRP protein/channel or portray more general principles of TR...

Table of Contents:

• TRPs as Special Cell Sensors: Temperature Sensing with TRPs
• TRPs in Mechano-sensing and Volume Regulation
• TRPs as Chemosensors (ROS, RNS, RCS, Gasotransmitters)
• Photosensitive TRPs
• TRPs in Taste and Chemesthesis
• Pain
• TRPs in Hearing
• TRPs in Olfaction
• TRP Structure
• Pain.- TRPs in Hearing
• TRP in Olfaction
• General Topics: Evolutionary Conserved, Multitasking TRP Channels-lessons From Worms and Flies.- TRPs as Novel Drug Targets
• TRPs in Endocrinology
• TRPs Modulation by Toxins
• TRPs and Phosphoinositides
• TRPs Modulation by Natural Compounds
• What do we Really Know and What do we Need to Know: Controversies, Perspectives, Surprises.