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Handbook of Membrane Channels: Molecular and Cellular Physiology
Author(s): Camillo Peracchia (Series Editor)
- Publisher: Academic Press Inc
- Publication Date: 26 Sept. 1994
- Language: English
- Print length: 591 pages
- ISBN-10: 0125506406
- ISBN-13: 9780125506403
Book Description
This handbook provides a thorough account of recent directions in membrane channel research. Each subject is covered in terms of channel biophysics, pharmacology, and molecular biology. The introductory chapter reviews methodologies of molecular biology currently used for studying molecular structure and function of membrane channels and specific domains in channel proteins.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The value of this book is that it illustrates the diversity of channel form and function in biological membranes; it utterly dispels the notion that ion channels are owned by the nervous system….The book gives equal weight to beasts from more exotic physiological climes–epithelial Cl- channels, gap junctions, aquaporins, cyclic nucleotide-activated channels, mitochondrial K+ channels, exocytotic fusion-pores, channels in bacteria, yeast, and protozoa, and the Ca2+-release channels of intracellular membranes. –SCIENCE
About the Author
Camillo Peracchia is a Professor Emeritus of Physiology and Pharmacology at the University of Rochester, School of Medicine. His research has focused on the structure and chemical regulation of cell-to-cell communication via gap junction channels and on the direct role of calmodulin in gap junction channel gating. Continuously funded by NIH for almost four decades, he has published over a hundred papers, authored a book and edited three others. He was an invited speaker at over forty international congresses and symposia, and has been Associate Editor of the Journal of Neurocytology. In 1994 he was elected Honorary Member of the “Societá di Medicina e Scienze Naturali (University of Parma, Italy). He has served as Regular Member of the Cell Biology and Physiology Study Section (CBY-1, NIH, 1990-94), and is a National Reviewers Reserve (NIH, 1994-present). He is a member of the American Society for Cell Biology and the Biophysical Society. In March 2017 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who. He has taught Respiratory Physiology to medical students and Cell Biology to graduate students. In recognition of his teaching activity, he was awarded the Manuel D. Goldman Prize (1998), the Edward F. Adolph Medal (2004), and five commendations (1995, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005).
