TRP channels play a key role in sensory physiology and have been the focus of intensive investigation in recent years. The proposed book will be a comprehensive, detailed overview of the ways in which TRP channels are involved in a wide variety of sensory modalities. Authors will explore the involvement of TRP channels in photo transduction (sight), chemotransduction (taste and odor), mechanotransduction (touch and hearing), thermo transduction (the sensation of temperature) and pain perception. Furthermore, the book will include some grounding chapters such as one on the history of TRP channel research, one on the biophysical characteristics of the proteins and one on trafficking and post-translational regulation.
TRP channels play a key role in sensory physiology and have been the focus of intensive investigation in recent years. The proposed book will be a comprehensive, detailed overview of the ways in which TRP channels are involved in a wide variety of sensory modalities. Authors will explore the involvement of TRP channels in photo transduction (sight), chemotransduction (taste and odor), mechanotransduction (touch and hearing), thermo transduction (the sensation of temperature) and pain perception. Furthermore, the book will include some grounding chapters such as one on the history of TRP channel research, one on the biophysical characteristics of the proteins and one on trafficking and post-translational regulation.
Preface
Rodolfo Madrid, Juan Bacigalupo
Chapter 1. Biophysical and molecular features of thermo sensitive TRP channels involved in sensory transduction
Gonzalo Ferreira, Natalia Raddatz, Yenisleidy Lorenzo, Carlos González, Ramón Latorre
Chapter 2. Pharmacology of TRP Channels
Asia Fernández-Carvajal, Gregorio Fernández-Ballester, Rosario González-Muñiz, Antonio Ferrer-Montiel
Chapter 3. Modulation of TRP channels by N-glycosylation and phosphorylation
María Pertusa, Rodolfo Madrid
Chapter 4. TRP channels in visual transduction
Juan Bacigalupo, Ricardo Delgado, Yorka Muñoz, Peter O’Day
Chapter 5. TRP channels in transduction for responses to odorants and pheromones
Diego Restrepo, Rona Delay, Weihong Lin, Fabián López, Juan Bacigalupo
Chapter 6. TRP channels as targets for modulation of taste transduction
Karel Talavera
Chapter 7. TRP channels and mechanical transduction
Ana Gomis
Chapter 8. TRP channels in the sensation of heat
Chun-Hsiang Tan, Peter A. McNaughton
Chapter 9. TRP channels in cold transduction
Alejandro González, Gonzalo Ugarte, Ricardo Piña, María Pertusa, Rodolfo Madrid
Chapter 10. Mathematical modeling of TRPM8 and the cold thermoreceptors
Erick Olivares, Patricio Orio