Zinc Signals in Cellular Functions and Disorders

Foreword.- Preface.- 1 Introduction - "Zinc Signaling": The Blossoming Field of Zinc Biology (Taiho Kambe).- 2 Molecular Aspects of Zinc Signals (Wolfgang Maret).- 3 Zinc Transport Proteins and Zinc Signaling (Taiho Kambe, Tokuji Tsuji, and Kazuhisa Fukue).- 4 Oxidative Stress and Neuronal Zinc Signaling (Hirokazu Hara and Elias Aizenman).- 5 Zinc Signaling by "Zinc Wave" (Keigo Nishida and Satoru Yamasaki).- 6 The Zinc Sensing Receptor, ZnR/GPR39: Signaling and Significance (Michal Hershfinkel).- 7 Genetically-Encoded Fluorescent Probes for Intracellular Zn2+ Imaging (Anne M. Hessels and Maarten Merkx).- 8 Zinc Signal in Brain Functions (Atsushi Takeda).- 9 The Clinical Implications of Impaired Zinc Signalling in the Brain (Sara M. Hancock, Ashley I. Bush, and Paul A. Adlard).- 10 Zinc Signals in Immunology (Lothar Rink and Martina Maywald).- 11 Zinc Signal in Inflammation (Ming-Jie Liu and Daren L. Knoell).- 12 Zinc Signal in Growth Control and Bone Diseases (Toshiyuki Fukada, Shintaro Hojyo, and Bum-Ho Bin).- 13 Zinc and its Role in the Pathogenesis of Type 2 Diabetes (Yoshio Fujitani, Motoyuki Tamaki, Ayako Fukunaka, and Hirotaka Watada).- 14 Zinc Signalling and Cancer (Thirayost Nimmanon and Kathryn M. Taylor).- 15 Zinc as a Key Meiotic Cell Cycle Regulator in the Mammalian Oocyte (Ru Ya, Emily Que, Thomas V. O'Halloran, and Teresa K. Woodruff).- BM Future Perspectives (Toshiyuki Fukada).- Index.