Ion Channels in Health and Disease

This concise, accessible book provides an overview of fundamental concepts in ion channels research to link defects in human disease

Geoffrey S. Pitt (Edited by)

9780128020029, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 28 July 2016

392 pages, 75 illustrations (75 in full color)
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.5 cm, 0.63 kg

Ion Channels in Health and Disease provides key insight to allow researchers to generate discoveries across disease states. A single resource that integrates disparate areas of biology and disease ion channel biology, this publication includes cross-referencing for disease, channels, and tissues. Offers a broad view of research of interest to early and experienced researchers across biological and biomedical research.

1. Calcium channel auxiliary subunits in pain management
2. Sodium channels and pain
3. Voltage-gated ion channels in cancer
4. Novel channels regulating somatosensation
5. Ion channels in epilepsy
6. Skeletal myopathies caused by channelopathies
7. Endocrine disorders caused by channelopathies
8. Emerging roles of CaCC channels in health and disease
9. New roles for ion channels in neuropsychiatric disorders
10. Pharmacology and pathophysiology of calcium channels
11. Inherited cardiac arrhythmias
12. Ion channels and diabetes
13. Migraines and calcium channels
14. Immunity and ion channels

Subject Areas: Cellular biology [cytology PSF]