Ion channels in the pulmonary vasculature /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton :
Taylor & Francis,
2005.
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| Series: | Lung biology in health and disease ;
v. 197. |
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Table of Contents:
- Membrane electrical properties of vascular smooth muscle cells of the pulmonary circulation
- Excitation-contraction coupling in the pulmonary vasculature
- Ion channel heterogeneity in the pulmonary vascular bed : a basis for site-specific responses to vasoactive stimuli
- Voltage-gated Ca²⁺ channels in the pulmonary vasculature
- Receptor-operated Ca²⁺ channels
- Transient receptor potential cation channels and store-operated Ca²⁺ channels
- Ca²⁺ releasing channels in pulmonary vascular smooth muscle cells
- Agonist-mediated regulation of Ca²⁺ transients in PASMC's
- Epithelial sodium channel function in health and disease in the adult lung
- Voltage-dependent Na⁺ channels in pulmonary vascular smooth muscle cells
- Voltage-gated potassium channels in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells
- Ca²⁺-activated, voltage-dependent K⁺ channels
- ATP-sensitive and inward rectifier K⁺ channels
- 2P domain K⁺ channels and their role in chemoreception
- Ca²⁺-activated CI⁻channels and pulmonary vascular tone
- Volume-sensitive CI⁻channels in pulmonary vascular smooth muscle and endothelial cells
- Molecular physiology of O₂₋sensitive ion channels
- Hypoxia-induced modulation of O₂₋sensitive K⁺ channels in pulmonary vascular smooth muscle cells
- Ion channels and the effects of hypoxia in pulmonary artery endothelial cells
- Aquaporins in the vasculature
- Functional roles of ion channels in the regulation of membrane potential and pulmonary vascular tone
- Calcium channels, calcium signaling, and lung vascular barrier regulation
- Role of Ca²⁺ sparks in the regulation of pulmonary vascular tone
- Ion channels and hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction
- Essential role of anion channels in induction of apoptotic and necrotic cell death
- Downregulated Kv channels and upregulated TRPC channels in primary pulmonary hypertension
- Developmental regulation of ion channel function and expression in the pulmonary vasculature
- Anorexigens and pulmonary arterial hypertension : the role of potassium channels
- Isolation and culture of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells
- Measurement of ion channel function using conventional patch-clamp techniques
- Planar electrodes : the future of voltage clamp
- Correlation of ion channel activity with gene expression using single-cell RT-PCR and patch-clamp techniques
- Ion channel trafficking
- Functional study of cloned ion channels in mammalian transfection systems using site-directed mutagenesis
- Screening for mRNA expression using the polymerase chain reaction
- Practical aspects of confocal imaging of Ca²⁺ sparks and cytoplasmic Ca²⁺ concentration
- Use of transgenic and gene-targeted mice to study ion channel function in the pulmonary vasculature