The New Benchmark for Understanding the Latest Developments of Ion ChannelsIon channels control the electrical properties of neurons and cardiac cells, mediate the detection and response to sensory stimuli, and regulate the response to physical stimuli. They can often interact with the cellular environment due to their location at the surface of ce

The Textbook of Ion Channels is a set of three volumes providing a wide-ranging reference source on ion channels for students, instructors and researchers. Ion channels are membrane proteins that control the electrical properties of neurons and cardiac cells; mediate the detection and response to sensory stimuli like light, sound, odor, and taste; and regulate the response to physical stimuli like temperature and pressure. In non-excitable tissues, ion channels are instrumental for the regulation of basic salt balance that is critical for homeostasis. Ion channels are located at the surface membrane of cells, giving them the unique ability to communicate with the environment, as well as the membrane of intracellular organelles, allowing them to regulate internal homeostasis. Ion channels are fundamentally important for human health and diseases, and are important targets for pharmaceuticals in mental illness, heart disease, anesthesia, pain and other clinical applications. The modern methods used in their study are powerful and diverse, ranging from single ion-channel measurement techniques to models of ion channel diseases in animals, and human clinical trials for ion channel drugs. Volume I, Part 1 covers fundamental topics such as the basic principles of ion permeation and selectivity, voltage-dependent, ligand-dependent, and mechano-dependent ion channel activation mechanisms, the mechanisms for ion channel desensitization and inactivation, and basic ion channel pharmacology and inhibition. Volume I, Part 2 offers a practical guide of cardinal methods for researching ion channels, including heterologous expression and voltage-clamp and patch-clamp electrophysiology; isolation of native currents using patch clamping; modeling ion channel gating, structures, and its dynamics; crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy; fluorescence and paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy methods; and genetics approaches in model organisms. All three volumes give the reader an introduction to fundamental concepts needed to understand the mechanism of ion channels; a guide to the technical aspects of ion channel research; a modern guide to the properties of major ion channel families; and includes coverage of key examples of regulatory, physiological and disease roles for ion channels.

"From the editors of the renowned Handbook of Ion Channels, Textbook of Ion Channels is a student-friendly, advanced textbook that illustrates the fundamental importance of these membrane proteins to human health and disease. It has been split into three separate volumes so that each volume can target different needs. The basic concepts of ion channel research are introduced in the first volume, whilst volume two focuses on the pharmacology of ion channels' superfamilies, and volume three presents powerful methods for modeling ion channel diseases and performing clinical trials for ion channel drugs"--

Neurons are excitable cells. They use ions and electrical signaling to talk to each to other and when they talk to each other, neurons control behavior. The Oxford Handbook of Neuronal Ion Channels is an accessible reference describing the nature and properties of ion channels in neurons. The book explains how ion channels open and close, how they can be selective for specific ions, and how they give rise to action potentials. Included are in-depth chapters discussing specific classes of ion channels: potassium channels, sodium channels, neurotransmitter-gated ion channels and other specialized channels. Throughout the handbook, important insight is provided on the contribution ion channels make to neuronal excitability and to synaptic transmission. The handbook goes further to discuss channelopathies, a group of human diseases such as epilepsy, pain and migraines that can be caused by ion channel dysfunction. For neuroscientists, biophysicists and neuropharmacologists, this handbook is a valuable reference of ion channel biology and function.

"From the editors of the renowned Handbook of Ion Channels, Textbook of Ion Channels is a student-friendly, advanced textbook that illustrates the fundamental importance of these membrane proteins to human health and disease. It has been split into three separate volumes so that each volume can target different needs. The basic concepts of ion channel research are introduced in the first volume, whilst volume two focuses on the pharmacology of ion channels' superfamilies, and volume three presents powerful methods for modeling ion channel diseases and performing clinical trials for ion channel drugs"--

"From the editors of the renowned Handbook of Ion Channels, Textbook of Ion Channels is a student-friendly, advanced textbook that illustrates the fundamental importance of these membrane proteins to human health and disease. It has been split into three separate volumes so that each volume can target different needs. The basic concepts of ion channel research are introduced in the first volume, whilst volume two focuses on the pharmacology of ion channels' superfamilies, and volume three presents powerful methods for modeling ion channel diseases and performing clinical trials for ion channel drugs"--