
Ion Channels and Calcium Signaling in the Microcirculation
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Key Features
- Presents the latest volume in the Current Topics in Membranes series, with a novel focus on smooth muscle and endothelial cells in the peripheral microcirculation
- Provides authoritative contributions from an international team of leading experts actively studying the microcirculation
- Includes a unique focus on regional heterogeneity in ion channel expression and function in the peripheral microcirculation
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction to ion channels and calcium signaling in the microcirculation
William F. Jackson
2. Ion channels and the regulation of myogenic tone in peripheral arterioles
William F. Jackson
3. Endothelial inwardly-rectifying K+ channels as a key component of shear stress-induced mechanotransduction
Ibra S. Fancher and Irena Levitan
4. Endothelial TRPV4 channels and vasodilator reactivity
Yen-Lin Chen and Swapnil K. Sonkusare
5. Regulation of vascular tone by transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 channels
Pratish Thakore, Sher Ali and Scott Earley
6. Regulation of ion channels in the microcirculation by mineralocorticoid receptor activation
Laura Chambers and Anne M. Dorrance
7. Ion channels and myogenic activity in retinal arterioles
Peter Barabas, Josy Augustine, José A. Fernández, J. Graham McGeown, Mary K. McGahon and Tim M. Curtis
8. KIR channels in the microvasculature: Regulatory properties and the lipid-hemodynamic environment
Maria Sancho and Donald G. Welsh
9. Ion channels in capillary endothelium
Daniela C. G. Garcia and Thomas A. Longden
10. Excitability and contractility in arterioles and venules from the urinary bladder
Nathan R. Tykocki and Frederick C. Monson
11. Intrinsic regulation of microvascular tone by myoendothelial feedback circuits
Hamish A.L. Lemmey, Christopher J. Garland and Kim A. Dora
Product details
- No. of pages: 372
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: May 8, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128200919
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128200902
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William Jackson

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