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Gordon L. Fain
ISBN: 9780878931712
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S.
Edition: illustrated edition
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This process of sensory transduction began to be understood only recently. Beginning with fundamental properties of ion channels and G protein coupled signal cascades, this text provides a comprehensive survey of this knowledge.
How are sights, sounds and smells converted into electrical signals in a form that can be interpreted by the nervous system? This process called sensory transduction began to be understood only recently as a result of the development of the techniques of patch clamp recording and gene cloning. Beginning with fundamental properties of ion channels and G protein coupled signal cascades, this text provides a comprehensive survey of this knowledge that, taken as a whole, represents one of the greatest achievements of modern biology and neuroscience: the unravelling of the mechanism of sensation.
| ISBN | 0878931716 | | Pages | 288 | | ISBN13 | 9780878931712
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S. | | Weight (grammes) | 894 | | Imprint | Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S. | | Published in | Sunderland | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 242 | | Publication date | 01 Aug 2003 | | Width (mm) | 185 | | Library of Congress | QP431 \.F3 | | Spine width (mm) | 22 | | DEWEY | 612.8 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| Ch. 1 | | The Senses | | 1 | | | | Early Studies of the Anatomy of the Sense Organs | | 2 | | | | The Physiology of Sensation | | 5 | | | | Cracking the Problem: Molecular Physiology | | 9 | | | | The Revolution of Molecular Biology | | 11 | | | | The Code Deciphered: Sensory Transduction | | 16 | | Ch. 2 | | Mechanisms of Sensation | | 19 | | | | Sensory Membrane | | 21 | | | | Organization of Membrane and Sensory Protein | | 24 | | | | Membrane Renewal | | 26 | | | | External Specializations | | 29 | | | | Detection of the Stimulus | | 34 | | | | Primary and Secondary Receptor Cells | | 35 | | | | Sensitivity of Transduction | | 37 | | | | Noise | | 39 | | | | Sex Pheromone Detection in the Male Moth | | 39 | | Ch. 3 | | Channels and Electrical Signals | | 43 | | | | Structure and Function of Ion Channels | | 43 | | | | The Structure of the Pore | | 45 | | | | Gating | | 46 | | | | Ionotropic Receptor Molecules | | 48 | | | | Membrane Potentials | | 51 | | | | The Nernst Equation | | 52 | | | | Ion Homeostasis | | 55 | | | | The Goldman Voltage Equation | | 57 | | | | Driving Force and Voltage Change | | 58 | | | | The Voltage Response of Hair Cells | | 59 | | | | The Technique of Voltage Champing | | 60 | | | | Voltage Clamping the Hair Cell | | 63 | | | | Ion Selectivity | | 66 | | | More... | | |
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