TRP Channels in Sensory Transduction [Paperback]

TRP channels play a key role in sensory physiology and have been the focus of intensive investigation in recent years.?The proposed book?will be a comprehensive, detailed overview of?the?ways in which TRP channels are involved?in a wide variety of?sensory modalities.?Authors will explore?the involvement of TRP channels in?photo transduction (sight),?chemotransduction (taste and odor), mechanotransduction (touch and hearing), thermo transduction (the sensation of temperature) and pain perception. Furthermore, the book will include some grounding chapters such?as one on?the history of TRP channel research,?one on the biophysical characteristics of the proteins and one on trafficking and post-translational regulation.

Preface

Rodolfo Madrid, Juan Bacigalupo

Chapter 1. Biophysical and molecular features of thermo sensitive TRP channels involved in sensory transduction

Gonzalo Ferreira, Natalia Raddatz, Yenisleidy Lorenzo, Carlos Gonz?lez, Ram?n Latorre

Chapter 2. Pharmacology of TRP Channels

Asia Fern?ndez-Carvajal, Gregorio Fern?ndez-Ballester, Rosario Gonz?lez-Mu?iz, Antonio Ferrer-Montiel

Chapter 3. Modulation of TRP channels by N-glycosylation and phosphorylation

Mar?a Pertusa, Rodolfo Madrid

Chapter 4. TRP channels in visual transduction

Juan Bacigalupo, Ricardo Delgado, Yorka Mu?oz, Peter ODay

Chapter 5. TRP channels in transduction for responses to odorants and pheromones

Diego Restrepo, Rona Delay, Weihong Lin, Fabi?n L?pez, Juan Bacigalupo

Chapter 6. TRP channels as targets for modulation of taste transduction

Karel Talavera

Chapter 7. TRP channels and mechanical transductiol3Ê