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Calcium in Living Cells

This volume will update classic techniques in detecting microscopic levels of calcium in live cells, as well as address new advances in the field, that are of use to a wide array of researchers in cell and developmental biology, biochemisty, biophysics, and genetics.

Michael Whitaker (Volume editor)

9780123748416, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 26 November 2010

328 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.4 cm, 0.77 kg

Praise for the first edition:

"This multiauthored book... provides theoretical and applied aspects of different established techniques for the measurement of [Ca2+]i at submicromolar concentration. Each chapter is organized, keeping in view the needs of a person working in the laboratory, by giving the detailed methodology required for the implementation of that particular technique, and all the chapters are well referenced...The book provides a pragmatic approach for the estimation of cytosolic [Ca2+]i and also provides a means for studying the spatial and temporal resolution of [Ca2+]i. The book achieves the stated goal in the preface, 'this material will be very useful to the investigator who wants to apply any of these methods to his or her research." --RAMESH BHALLA, University of Iowa, Iowa City (published in MOLECULAR & CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCES)

Every cell of the body is dependent on calcium to function. Calcium is found in teeth and bones, and calcium signalling is necessary for the movement of muscles and for the action of the heart and the intestines as well as blood coagulation. Calcium in Living Cells will update classic techniques in detecting microscopic levels of calcium ions (Ca2+) in living cells, as well as address new techniques in the field of calcium detection and calcium signaling. Such detection and measurement of intracellular calcium is important to researchers studying the heart, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, and immune systems, whose findings will aid in the advancement of drug and genomic therapies to treat heart, gastrointestinal, autoimmune, and infectious diseases.

  1. A Practical Guide to the Preparation of Ca2+ Buffers
    Donald M. Bers, Chris W. Patton and Richard Nuccitelli
  2. Photorelease Techniques for Raising or Lowering Intracellular Ca2+
    Robert Zucker
  3. Making and Using Calcium-Selective Mini- and Microelectrodes
    L. Hove-Madsen, S. Baudet and D.M. Bers
  4. Construction, Theory and Practical Considerations for using Self-Referencing of Ca2+-Selective Microelectrodes for Monitoring Extracellular Ca2+ Gradients
    Mark A. Messerli and Peter J.S. Smith
  5. Practical Aspects of Measuring Intracellular Calcium Signals with Fluorescent Indicators
    Joseph P. Y. Kao, Gong Li, Darryl A. Auston
  6. Genetically-encoded probes for measurement of intracellular calcium
    Michael Whitaker
  7. Patch clamp methods for studying calcium channels
    David L. Armstrong, Christian Erxleben and Jody A. White
  8. Nuclear Patch-Clamp Recording from Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptors
    Taufiq Rahman, Colin W. Taylor
  9. Confocal And Multiphoton Imaging Of Intracellular Ca2+
    Godfrey Smith, Martyn Reynolds, Francis Burto1, Ole Johan Kemi
  10. The Use of Aequorins to Record and Visualize Ca2+ Dynamics: From Subcellular Microdomains to Whole Organisms.
    Sarah E. Webb, Kelly L. Rogers, Eric Karplus, and Andrew L. Miller

Subject Areas: Cellular biology [cytology PSF]
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