Cell signalling

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'Cell Signalling' presents a carefully structured introduction to this subject, introducing those conserved features which underlie many different extra-and intracellular signalling systems.

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Full title :Cell signalling / John T. Hancock.

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'Cell Signalling' presents a carefully structured introduction to this subject, introducing those conserved features which underlie many different extra-and intracellular signalling systems.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010.
Edition:3rd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

Description:xxii, 341 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199232109, 0199232105
oclc:ocn444336556
LC Classification:QH604.2
Dewey Decimal:571.7/4

Part I: An overview of cell signalling -- Aspects of cellular signalling -- Pathways are the key to signalling -- A look at some of the history and techniques of cell signalling -- Part II: Components that comprise signalling pathways -- Extracellular signals: hormones, cytokines and growth factors -- Detection of extracellular signals: the role of receptors -- Protein Phosphorylation, kinases and phosphatases -- Cyclic nucleotides, cyclases and G proteins -- Inositol phosphate metabolism and roles of membrane lipids -- Intracellular calcium: Its control and role as an intracellular signal -- Reactive oxygen species, reactive nitrogen species and redox signalling -- Part III: Selected examples of signalling pathways and events -- Insulin and the signal transduction cascades it invokes -- Perception of the environment -- Signalling in development and for the regulation of gene expression -- Life, death and apoptosis -- Part IV: Final thoughts -- Cell Signalling: importance, complexity, and future Index.

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