Mechanosensitivity in cells and tissues

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Corporate Author: National Center for Biotechnology Information (U.S.)
Other Authors: Kamkin, A. V., Kiseleva, I. (Irina)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Moscow : Academia Publishing House Ltd., 2005
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Table of Contents:
  • Mechanosensitivity of cells from various tissues
  • Mechanotransduction in the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
  • Mechanically mediated crosstalk in heart
  • Swelling-and stretch-activated chloride channels in the heart: regulation and function
  • Role of stretch-activated channels in the heart: action potential and Ca2+ transients
  • Isolated cardiomyocytes: mechanosensitivity of action potential, membrane current and ion concentration
  • Mechano-electric feedback in the heart: evidence from intracellular microelectrode recordings on multicellular preparations and single cells from healthy and diseased tissue
  • The Role of mechanosensitive fibroblasts in the heart
  • Mechanical modulation of intracellular ion concentrations: mechanisms and electrical consequences
  • Stretch-induced slow force response in mammalian ventricular myocardium
  • The Na+/H+ exchanger as the main protagonist following myocardial stretch: the Anrep effect and myocardial hypertrophy
  • Mechano-electric feedback and atrial arrhythmias
  • The Role of mechano-electrical feedback in the cholinergic atrial fibrillation initiation
  • Mechanosensitive cation channels of leech neurons
  • Mechanosensitivity of primary afferent nociceptors in the pain pathway
  • Stimulus-secretion coupling in the osmoreceptive prolactin cell of the tilapia
  • Stretch-inactivated channels in skeletal muscle
  • Stretch-activated cation channels and the myogenic response of small arteries
  • Mechanobiology of bone tissue and bone cells
  • Functional roles of mechanosensitive ion channels, Ç1 integrins and kinase cascades in chondrocyte mechanotransduction
  • Enigmatic roles of the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) in articular chondrocytes and osteoblasts: mechanotransduction, sodium transport or extracellular sodium sensing?