Receptor Subunits and Complexes - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521366127 ISBN 13: 9780521366120

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

This volume provides a wide-ranging review of the variety and specificity of receptors, including those for neurotransmitters, hormones, growth factors, oncogenes and antigens, and looks in depth at the fundamental features of multi-subunit complexes and their vital role in coordinating and controlling the functions of the body. These receptors for hormones and drugs are mostly constituted from protein subunits. They may be organised as ligand-operated ion channels in a cell membrane or they may be concerned with enzyme activation to generate second messengers or DNA transcription following a change in the association-disassociation state of the receptor complex. Advances at the molecular level have enabled scientists to relate the structure of these receptor subunits to their specific mode of action and their function and this in turn is leading the way forward to exciting new research with important medical consequences for the treatment of disease. The fourteen chapters in this volume summarise these advances across a wide range of disciplines and the resulting publication will therefore be of interest to research scientists in endocrinology, immunology, pharmacology, oncology and neurobiology.

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Review

' ... a genuine attempt to cover all of the major receptor groups' Febs Letters

Book Description

This volume looks in depth at the detailed stucture of receptors and how they accomplish their effects, that is how they control the activity of cells.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521366127
• ISBN 13: 9780521366120
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Barnard E. A., Burgen Arnold S. V.