Calcium: The Grand-master Cell Signaler - Hardcover

Whitfield, James F.; Chakravarthy, Balu

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0660182017 ISBN 13: 9780660182018

Publisher: Canadian Science Publishing (NRC Research Press), 2001

Synopsis

This unique book has an exciting story to tell about Ca[2], the versatile Master Cell Signaler whose influence reaches into all corners of the cell and controls cell proliferation, differentiation, cell functions too numerous to list here, and even cell death. The book begins nearly 4 billion years ago with the emergence of life on the newborn Earth. One of the great turning points in the history of life on Earth, The Great Ca[2+]-Driven Eukaryotic Revolution, happened about 2 billion years later when Ca[2+] was converted from a dangerous killer that had to be kept out of cells into the versatile Grand Master of cell signalers. It was this revolutionary conversion that enabled the development of eukaryotic cells from which came animals with shells, internal and external skeletons, muscles and brains, and, of course, the plants. The reader will be taken on a tour of tissues chosen to best show three (proliferator, differentiator, killer) of Ca[2+1]s many faces.

About this title

Synopsis

This is study of CA2+, the cell signaller whose influence reaches into all corners of the cell and controls cell proliferation, differenciation, cell functions, and even cell death.

Edition details

• Publisher: Canadian Science Publishing (NRC Research Press)
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0660182017
• ISBN 13: 9780660182018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 247