TRP Channels in Sensory Transduction

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Madrid, Rodolfo (Editor), Bacigalupo, Juan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Neurosciences.; Neurobiology.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.

TRP channels play a key role in sensory physiology and have been the focus of intensive investigation in recent years. This book is a comprehensive, detailed overview of the ways in which TRP channels are involved in a wide variety of sensory modalities. Authors explore the involvement of TRP channe...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Biophysical and molecular features of thermo sensitive TRP channels involved in sensory transduction
• Pharmacology of TRP channels
• Modulation of TRP channels by N-glycosylation and Phosphorylation
• TRP channels in visual transductions
• TRP channels in transduction for responses to odorants and pheromones
• TRP channels as targets for modulation of taste transduction
• TRP channels and mechanical transduction
• TRP channels in the sensation of heat
• TRP channels in cold transduction
• Mathematical modeling of TRPM8 and the cold thermoreceptors.