Physiology and Pathology of Chloride Transporters and Channels in the Nervous System: From Molecules to Diseases (Hardcover)

Section I Overview of chloride transporters and channels

1. Chloride Channels: An Historical Perspective by H. Criss Hartzell

2. Sodium-Coupled Chloride Cotransporters: Discovery and Newly Emerging Concepts by John Russell

3. Pathophysiology of the K+-Cl- Cotransporters: Paths to Discovery and Overview by John S. Gibson, J. Clive Ellory, Norma C. Adragna and Peter K. Lauf

4. From Cloning to Structure, Function, and Regulation of Chloride-dependent and Independent Bicarbonate Transporters by Michael F.?Romero, Min-Hwang Chang and?David Mount

5. Thermodynamics and Kinetics of chloride transport in Neurons: An Outline by F. Javier Alvarez-Leefmans and Eric Delpire

Section II Current methods for studying chloride regulation

6. Chemical and GFP-based Fluorescent Chloride Indicators by Alan S. Verkman

7. Clomeleon, a Genetically-encoded Chloride Indicator by Ken Berglund, Thomas Kuner and George J. Augustine

8. Gramicidin Perforated Patch by Norio Akaike

9. Measuring Electroneutral Chloride-dependent Ion Fluxes in Heterologous Expression Systems by Kenneth

Gagnon

10. Knockout models of cation chloride cotransporters by Nicole Garbarini and Eric Delpire

Section III From cloning to structure, function and regulation of chloride channels

11. The NKCC and NCC genes: An in silico view by Mauricio Di Fulvio and F. Javier Alvarez-Leefmans

12. The ClC Family of Chloride Channels and Transporters by Tobias Stauber, Gaia Novarino and Thomas J. Jentsch

13. Calcium-Activated Chloride Channels by Fiona Britton, Normand Leblanc and James L. Kenyon

14. GABAA Receptor Channels by Robert L. Macdonald and Emmanuel J. Botzolakis

15. The Puzzles of Volume-Activated Anion Channels by Yasunobu Okada, Kaori Sato, Abduqodir H. Toychiev, Makoto Suzuki, Amal K. Dutta, Hana Inoue and Ravshan Z. Sabirov

16. The Sodium-Dependent Chloride Cotransporters by Gerardo Gamba

17. The Potassium-Chloride Cotransporters: from Cloning to Structure and Function by John A.?Payne

18. Regulation of Cation-Chloride Cotransporters by Gerardo Gamba, Nicole Garbarini and Eric Delpire

Section IV Cation-chloride cotransporters in neural function and dysfunction

19. GABA, Glycine and Cation-Chloride Cotransporterts in Retinal Function and Development by Noga Vardi and ling-Li Zhang

20. Chloride-based Signal Amplification in Olfactory Sensory Neurons by Stephan Frings

21. Cochlear and Vestibular Function and Dysfunction by Daniel C. Marcus and Philine Wangemann

22. Presynaptic inhibition, pain and neurogenic inflammation by F. Javier Alvarez-Leefmans

23. Modulation of Chloride Homeostasis by Microglia by Yves De Koninck

24. Cation-Chloride Cotransporters as Pharmacological Targets in the Treatment of Epilepsy by Kristopher T. Kahle and Kevin Staley

25. The Role of Cation-Chloride Cotransporters in Brain Ischemia by Dandan Sun, Doug Kintner and Brooks B. Pond

26. Chloride Transport in Glioma Growth and Cell Invasion by Harald Sontheimer

27. The Sodium-Potassium-Chloride Cotransporter, Human Cytomegalovirus, and the Cell Cycle by John M.?Russell

Section V Cation-chloride cotransport in Choroid Plexus and blood brain barrier

28. Chloride Transporters as Water Pumps: Elements in a New Model of Epithelial Water Transport by Nanna MacAulay, Steffen Hamann, and Thomas Zeuthen

29. Choroid plexus and chloride transport by Peter D. Brown , Sarah L. Davies and Ian D. Millar

30. Ion and Water Transport Across the Blood-Brain Barrier by Martha E. O’Donnell