Calcium-Activated Chloride Channels

✍ Scribed by Catherine Mary Fuller (Eds.)

Publisher: Academic Press, Elsevier
Year: 2002
Leaves: 437
Series: Current Topics in Membranes 53
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Contributors
Pages xv-xviii

Preface
Pages xix-xxi
Catherine Mary Fuller

Previous volumes in series
Pages xxiii-xxv

The endogenous calcium-activated Cl channel in Xenopus oocytes: A physiologically and biophysically rich model system Review Article
Pages 3-39
Khaled Machaca, Zhiqiang Qu, Akinori Kuruma, H. Criss Hartzell, Nael McCarty

Ca²⁺-inactivated Cl⁻ channels in Xenopus laevis oocytes Review Article
Pages 41-55
Wolf-Michael Weber

A Ca²⁺-activated anion channel in the sarcoplasmic reticulum of skeletal muscle Review Article
Pages 59-80
Angela F. Dulhunty, Derek R. Lavert

Physiological role of the Ca²⁺-activated Cl⁻ current in mammalian heart Review Article
Pages 81-98
Andrew C. Zygmunt

Recent advances on the properties and role of Ca²⁺-activated chloride currents in smooth muscle Review Article
Pages 99-118
W.A. Large, I.A. Greenwood, A.S. Piper

The calcium-activated chloride conductance in olfactory receptor neurons Review Article
Pages 119-134
Steven J. Kleene

Ca²⁺-activated Cl⁻ channels as Ca²⁺ sensors with particular reference to the modulation of neuronal excitability Review Article
Pages 135-166
James L. Kenyon, Roderick H. Scott

Determination of intracellular chloride concentration in dorsal root ganglion neurons by fluorescence lifetime imaging Review Article
Pages 167-184,IN1,185-189
Hiroshi Kaneko, Ilva Putzier, Stephan Frings, Thomas Gensch

Calcium-activated Cl⁻ conductance in the airway epithelium Review Article
Pages 193-207
Sherif E. Gabriel

Ca²⁺-activated Cl⁻ currents in salivary and lacrimal glands Review Article
Pages 209-230
James E. Melvin, Jorge Arreola, Keith Nehrke, Ted Begenisicht

Properties and role of calcium-activated chloride channels in pancreatic duct cells Review Article
Pages 231-256
Michael A. Gray, John P. Winpenny, Bernard Verdon, Catherine M. O'Reilly, Barry E. Argent

Calcium-mediated chloride secretion in the intestinal epithelium: Significance and regulation Review Article
Pages 257-282
Kim E. Barrett

Renal expression of Ca²⁺-activated Cl⁻ channels Review Article
Pages 283-307
S. Boese, J. Sayer, G. Stewart, M. Glanville, M.A. Gray, N.L. Simmons

Calcium-dependent anion secretion in endometrial epithelial cells Review Article
Pages 309-326
Melissa Palmer-Densmore, Scott M. O'Grady

Calcium-activated chloride channels in vascular endothelial cells Review Article
Pages 327-344
Bernd Nilius, Guy Droogmans

Regulation of calcium-activated chloride channels by inositol 3,4,5,6 tetrakisphosphate Review Article
Pages 345-363
Melisa W.Y. Ho, Stephen B. Shears

Discovery and cloning of the CLCA gene family Review Article
Pages 367-387
Achim D. Gruber, Randolph C. Elble, Bendicht U. Pauli

Electrophysiology of the CLCA family Review Article
Pages 389-414
Catherine M. Fuller, Dale J. Benos

CLCA adhesion in site-specific cancer metastasis Review Article
Pages 415-430
Bendicht U. Pauli, Hung-Chi Cheng, Mossaad Abdel-Ghany

Index
Pages 431-441

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