Overview
The first book focusing on zinc as a signaling factor
Provides a comprehensive review of zinc signaling studies, including its involvement in human health and disease
Structured for easy readability for all readers including professionals and young scientists and students
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book describes the crucial role of "zinc signals" in biological processes on a molecular and physiological basis, discussing future directions and questions underlying this unique phenomenon. To accomplish this, a group of worldwide leaders in the field, who have made outstanding contributions, overview zinc signals from a professional standpoint. Zinc plays an indispensable role in various cellular processes. It regulates a great number of protein functions including transcription factors, enzymes, adapters, and growth factors as a structural or catalytic factor or both. Recently, another function of zinc has received extensive interest and attention because of its potential importance as a signaling mediator. Zinc plays a dynamic role as an intracellular and extracellular signaling factor and thus regulates cellular signaling pathways, which enables communication between cells, conversion of extracellular stimuli to intracellular signals, and control of various intracellular events. These functions of zinc have become recognized as “zinc signals,” which play critical roles in physiology, and therefore their imbalance can cause a variety of problems with regard to human health. Because the notion of zinc signals is quite new and no integrative review books focusing on them have yet been published, we believe this book will provide very timely information on the subject and thus should be of importance and interest to a wide range of readers.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Zinc Signals in Cellular Functions and Disorders
Editors: Toshiyuki Fukada, Taiho Kambe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55114-0
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-56180-4Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-55114-0Published: 25 September 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 343
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cell Physiology, Cell Biology, Human Physiology