Calcium Transport and Intracellular Calcium Homeostasis

Front Matter....Pages I-XXII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Modulation and Functions of Neuronal Ca 2+ Permeable Channels....Pages 3-17
Control of Calcium Influx and Internal Calcium Release in Electrically Non-Excitable Cells....Pages 19-26
Patch Clamp Study of Ca Channels in Isolated Renal Tubule Segments....Pages 27-34
Recent Developments in the Molecular Characterization of the L-Type Ca 2+ -Channel and Mitochondrial Ca 2+ -Antagonist Sites....Pages 35-48
Evidence for an Intracellular Ryanodine- and Caffeine-Sensitive Calcium Ion-Conducting Channel in Excitable Tissues....Pages 49-58
Characterization of Novel Probes of Voltage-Dependent Calcium Channels....Pages 59-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
The Calcium Pumping ATPase of the Plasma Membrane Structure-Function Relatioships....Pages 69-71
Tertiary Structure of the Muscle Calcium Pump....Pages 73-86
A 19KD C-Terminal Tryptic Fragment of the Alpha Chain of Na/K-ATPase, Essential for Cation Occlusion and Transport....Pages 87-94
The Activity of the Basolateral Membrane Calcium-Pumping ATPase and Intestinal Calcium Transport....Pages 95-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Sodium-Calcium Exchange in the Heart....Pages 105-121
The Role of Sodium/Calcium Exchange in the Regulation of Vascular Contractility....Pages 123-132
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Function and Regulation of Intracellular Ca in Renal Cells....Pages 135-148
Na + -Ca 2+ and Na + -H + Antiporter Interactions. Relations between Cytosolic Free Ca 2+ , Na + and Intracellular pH....Pages 149-159
Regulation of Intracellular Calcium in Cultured Renal Epithelioid (MDCK-) Cells....Pages 161-168
Assessment of the Role of Calcium in Neutrophil Activation Using Electropermeabilized Cells....Pages 169-176
The Role of Calcium in Regulating the Agonist-Evoked Intracellular Acidosis in Rabbit Salivary Gland Acini....Pages 177-184
Free Calcium in Red Blood Cells of Human Hypertensives is Elevated: How Can This be?....Pages 185-195
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Transepithelial Calcium Transport in Gut and Kidney....Pages 199-223
Intestinal Calcium Absorption: The Calbindins, the Visualization of Transported Calcium and a New Rapid Action of 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D 3 ....Pages 225-232
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Intestinal Calcium Transport: Vesicular Carriers, Noncytoplasmic Calbindin D 28K, and Non-Nuclear Effects of 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D 3 ....Pages 233-240
Calcium Transport across the Colon....Pages 241-247
Calcium Absorption. Vitamin D Effects on Rat Intestinal Calcium Transport Systems Depend on the State of Enterocyte Differentiation Along the Crypt-Villus Axis....Pages 249-256
Oscillations in Intestinal Calcium Absorption as Observed and as Predicted by Computer Simulation....Pages 257-262
Mechanisms and Sites of Transepithelial Ca 2+ Transport in Kidney Cells....Pages 263-270
Mechanisms of H + /HCO 3 − Transport in Rat Kidney Medullary Thick Ascending Limb. Effects of Arginine Vasopressin....Pages 271-279
Front Matter....Pages 281-281
Structure and Selectivity of Ca-Binding Sites in Proteins: The 5-Fold Site in an Icosahedral Virus....Pages 283-299
Molecular and Functional Aspects of Some Cytosolic Calcium-Binding Proteins....Pages 301-311
The Major Protein of Frog Otoconia is a Homolog of Phospholipase A2....Pages 313-320
Phosphorylase Kinase from Bovine Stomach Smooth Muscle: A Ca 2+ -Dependent Protein Kinase Associated with an Actin-Like Molecule....Pages 321-329
Front Matter....Pages 331-331
Structure and Functional Analysis of the Chick Calbindin Gene....Pages 333-338
Regulation of Calbindin-D 28K Gene Expression....Pages 339-346
Structure and Regulation of the Rat Duodenal Calbindin D 9k (CaBP-9k) Gene....Pages 347-354
Comparative Regulation at the Intestinal and Uterine Level of Calbindin mRNA in the Fowl....Pages 355-362
Calbindin-D 9k Localization and Gestational Changes in the Utero-Placental Unit: A Model for Maternal-Fetal Calcium Transports....Pages 363-366
Potential Role of Calbindins in Enamel Calcification....Pages 367-374
Front Matter....Pages 375-375
Intestinal Calcium Transport and Bone Mineralization in the Spontaneously Diabetic BB Rat....Pages 377-384
Calcium Transport in the Streptozotocin Diabetic Rat: Studies with Brush Border Membrane Vesicles....Pages 385-392
Epithelial Calcium Transport in the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat (SHR)....Pages 393-400
Interaction between Calcitriol and Thyroid Hormone: Effects on Intestinal Calcium Transport and Bone Resorption....Pages 401-408
Front Matter....Pages 375-375
Lead Poisoning and Calcium Transport....Pages 409-415
Tumoral Parathyroid Hormone-Related Protein and Calcium Transport....Pages 417-420
Front Matter....Pages 421-421
Felix Bronner — Forty Years Devoted to Calcium Homeostasis and Transport....Pages 423-427
Back Matter....Pages 429-437