Pathologies of Calcium Channels
Editors: Weiss, Norbert, Koschak, Alexandra (Eds.)
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Calcium ions represent Mother Nature’s ‘ion-of-choice’ for regulating fundamental physiological functions, as they initiate a new life at the time of fertilization and guide subsequent developmental and physiological functions of the human body. Calcium channels, which act as gated pathways for the movement of calcium ions across the membranes, play a central part in the initiation of calcium signals, and defects in calcium channel function have been found to result in a plethora of human diseases, referred to as the calcium channelopathies.
Pathologies of Calcium Channels brings together leading international experts to discuss our current understanding of human diseases associated with the various calcium channels, from their molecular basis to potential future therapeutic targeting of calcium channels.
- Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Cav2.1 Channels and Migraine
Pages 3-25
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Ataxia and CACNA1A: Episodic or Progressive?
Pages 27-45
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Role of L-Type Ca2+ Channels in Sensory Cells
Pages 47-75
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T-Type Calcium Channels and Epilepsy
Pages 77-96
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The Involvement of Calcium Channel α2δ Subunits in Diseases and as a Therapeutic Target
Pages 97-114
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Pathologies of Calcium Channels
- Editors
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- Norbert Weiss
- Alexandra Koschak
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-40282-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-40282-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-40281-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-662-52353-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 731
- Number of Illustrations
- 29 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour
- Topics
