Extracellular nucleotides and nucleosides : release, receptors, and physiological and pathophysiological effects / edited by Erik M. Schwiebert.
Series: Current topics in membranes ; v. 54.©2003Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 497 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780080490977
- 0080490972
- 0121533549
- 9780121533540
- Nucleosides
- Nucleotides
- Cell receptors
- Nucleotides -- physiology
- Nucleosides -- physiology
- Receptors, Cell Surface -- physiology
- Nucléosides -- Effets physiologiques
- Nucléotides -- Effets physiologiques
- Purines -- Récepteurs
- Transduction du signal cellulaire
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Molecular Biology
- Cell receptors
- Nucleosides
- Nucleotides
- Nucleotiden
- Nucleosiden
- Extracellulaire matrix
- QD433 .E98 2003eb
- W1
- QU 58

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: ATP and its Metabolites as Potent Extracellular Agents -- Cellular Mechanisms and Physiology of Nucleotide and Nucleoside Release from Cells: Current Knowledge, Novel Assays to Detect Purinergic Agonists, and Future Directions -- Molecular and Biological Properties of P2Y Receptors -- Extracellular ATP-Gated P2X Purinergic Receptor Channels -- Molecular and Cell Biology of Adenosine Receptors -- Relating the Structure of ATP-Gated Ion Channel Receptors to Their Function -- Epithelial Purinergic Receptors and Signaling in Health and Disease -- Nucleotide Release and Purinergic Signaling in the Vasculature Driven by the Red Blood Cell -- A Purine Signal for Functional Hyperemia in Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle -- Purinergic Receptors in the Nervous System -- Purinergic (P2) Receptors in the Kidney -- Purinergic Receptors and Hepatobiliary Function -- ATP in the Treatment of Advanced Cancer -- Purinergic Receptors in the Glomerulus and Vasculature of the Kidney.
Presents a comprehensive treatment of extracellular nucleotides and nucleosides.
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