Calcium signalling in cancer
By: Gajanan V. Sherbet.
Publisher: CRC
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Neoplasm Proteins -- physiology; Calcium Signaling -- physiology; Calcium-Binding Proteins -- physiology; Cell Differentiation -- physiology; Neoplasm Invasiveness; Neoplasm Metastasis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-348) and index.
Table of contents: title: ch. 1. Introduction; title: ch. 2. The calcium signalling pathway; title: ch. 3. Calcium binding proteins and their natural classification; title: ch. 4. Non-EF-Hand calcium binding proteins; title: ch. 5. The EF-Hand calcium binding proteins; title: ch. 6. The calmodulin family of calcium binding proteins; title: ch. 7. The structure of contractile proteins; title: ch. 8. Structure anf biology of calbindin; title: ch. 9. Calretinin: its role in cell differentiation and as a potential tumour marker; title: ch. 10. Calcineurin in cell proliferation, cell adhesion, and cell spreading; title: ch. 11. Centrins (caltractins) and their biological functions; title: ch. 12. Reticulocalbin family of EF-Hand proteins; title: ch. 13. Calpains in normal and aberrant cell physiology; title: ch. 14. Caspases in apoptosis, cell migration, proliferation, and neoplasia; title: ch. 15. Parvalbumins in neuronal development, differentiation, and proliferation; title: ch. 16. Osteonectin in cell function and behaviour; title: ch. 17. S100 proteins: their biological function and role in pathogenesis.