Airways Smooth Muscle: Peptide Receptors, Ion Channels and Signal Transduction

1. Endothelins.- 2. Bradykinin.- 3. Tachykinins and Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide.- 4. Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide.- 5. Atrial Natriuretic Peptides.- 6. Platelet-Derived Growth Factor, Transforming Growth Factor-? and Connective Tissue Growth Factor.- 7. Voltage-Dependent and Receptor-Operated Calcium Channels.- 8. High Conductance Calcium-Activated Potassium Channels.- 9. Adenosine Triphosphate-Activated Potassium Channels.- 10. Sodium/Potassium/Chloride Co-Transport.- 11. Sodium/Hydrogen Exchange.- 12. Sodium/Potassium-Dependent Adenosine Triphosphatase.

List of contents

1. Endothelins.- 2. Bradykinin.- 3. Tachykinins and Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide.- 4. Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide.- 5. Atrial Natriuretic Peptides.- 6. Platelet-Derived Growth Factor, Transforming Growth Factor-? and Connective Tissue Growth Factor.- 7. Voltage-Dependent and Receptor-Operated Calcium Channels.- 8. High Conductance Calcium-Activated Potassium Channels.- 9. Adenosine Triphosphate-Activated Potassium Channels.- 10. Sodium/Potassium/Chloride Co-Transport.- 11. Sodium/Hydrogen Exchange.- 12. Sodium/Potassium-Dependent Adenosine Triphosphatase.

Product details

• Assisted by: A Giembycz (Editor), A Giembycz (Editor), Mark A. Giembycz (Editor), Davi Raeburn (Editor), David Raeburn (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Basel
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.09.2013
• EAN: 9783034873642
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3487364-2
• No. of pages: 278
• Illustrations: VIII, 278 p.
• Series: Respiratory Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy; Respiratory Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine