Physiology of the gastrointestinal tract. (©2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editor-in-chief, Leonard R. Johnson ; associate editors, Kim E. Barrett [and four others].
• Other Names: Johnson, Leonard R, 1942-; Barrett, Kim E
• Contents: Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation -- OVERVIEW OF GENE ORGANIZATION -- EPIGENETIC INFLUENCES -- ANATOMY OF THE PROMOTER -- METHODOLOGY -- TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL OF GASTROINTESTINAL PEPTIDES -- POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL PROCESSING -- TRANSPORT ACROSS THE NUCLEAR MEMBRANE -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Translation and Posttranslational Processing of Gastrointestinal Peptides -- TRANSLATION -- POSTTRANSLATIONAL PROCESSING -- TRANSPORT INTO THE ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM -- PROCESSING IN THE ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM -- TRANSPORT FROM THE ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM AND THROUGH THE GOLGI -- PROCESSING REACTIONS IN THE GOLGI -- FORMATION OF SECRETORY VESICLES -- PROCESSING REACTIONS IN THE SECRETORY VESICLE -- POSTTRANSLATIONAL PROCESSING OF PREPROGASTRIN -- REFERENCES -- Transmembrane Signaling by G Protein Ò Coupled Receptors -- STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF G PROTEIN Ò COUPLED RECEPTORS -- MECHANISMS OF SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION -- RECEPTOR TYROSINE KINASES ARE SIGNALING PARTNERS FOR G PROTEIN Ò COUPLED RECEPTORS -- MECHANISMS THAT REGULATE SIGNALING BY G PROTEIN Ò COUPLED RECEPTORS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Gastrointestinal Hormones: Gastrin, Cholecystokinin, Somatostatin, andGhrelin -- GASTRIN -- CHOLECYSTOKININ -- SOMATOSTATIN -- GHRELIN -- REFERENCES -- Postpyloric Gastrointestinal Peptides -- SECRETIN -- INTESTINAL SOMATOSTATIN -- VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE AND RELATED PEPTIDES -- NEUROTENSIN -- NEUROPEPTIDE Y -- MOTILIN -- PEPTIDE YY -- REFERENCES -- Gastrointestinal Peptide Hormones Regulating Energy and Glucose Homeostasis -- PROGLUCAGON GENE STRUCTURE AND THE PROGLUCAGON- DERIVED PEPTIDES -- PROGLUCAGON-DERIVED PEPTIDE METABOLISM AND CLEARANCE -- GLUCAGON RECEPTOR FAMILY -- GLUCAGON RECEPTOR -- GLUCAGON-LIKE PEPTIDE-1 RECEPTOR -- GLUCAGON-LIKE PEPTIDE-2 RECEPTOR -- GLUCOSE-DEPENDENT INSULINOTROPIC POLYPEPTIDE RECEPTOR -- BIOLOGICAL ACTIONS OF GLUCAGON -- GLUCAGON ADMINISTRATION IN HUMAN SUBJECTS -- BIOLOGICAL ACTIONS OF GLICENTIN -- OXYNTOMODULIN -- BIOLOGICAL ACTIONS OF GLUCAGONLIKE PEPTIDE- 1 -- GLUCAGON-LIKE PEPTIDE-1 RECEPTOR AGONISTS AND THE TREATMENT OF TYPE 2 DIABETES -- ENHANCING INCRETIN ACTION VIA INHIBITION OF DIPEPTIDYL PEPTIDASE-IV -- BIOLOGICAL ACTIONS OF GLUCAGONLIKE PEPTIDE- 2 -- GLUCAGON-LIKE PEPTIDE-2 ADMINISTRATION TO HUMAN SUBJECTS -- GLUCOSE-DEPENDENT INSULINOTROPIC POLYPEPTIDE -- REFERENCES -- Growth Factors in the Gastrointestinal Tract -- INTRODUCTION -- TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR- FAMILY OF PEPTIDES AND -- RECEPTORS -- EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR FAMILY OF PEPTIDES AND RECEPTORS -- INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTORS -- TREFOIL FACTOR FAMILY OF PEPTIDES -- HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR -- FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR FAMILY -- REFERENCES -- Developmental Signaling Networks -- HISTORY -- Wnt/ -- CATENIN PATHWAY -- NONCANONICAL WNT SIGNALING PATHWAYS -- WNT/ -- CATENIN PATHWAY IN -- GASTROINTESTINAL PHYSIOLOGY -- WNT/ -- CATENIN PATHWAY DEFECTS -- IN GASTROINTESTINAL TUMORS -- REFERENCES -- Hedgehog Signaling in Gastrointestinal Morphogenesis and Morphostasis -- PATTERNING -- THE HEDGEHOG PATHWAY -- ROLE OF HEDGEHOG S.
• Edition: 4th ed
• Publisher Details: Burlington, Mass London : Elsevier Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Copyright Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (2 volumes), illustrations
• Subjects: 612.32; Gastrointestinal system -- Physiology; Gastrointestinal system -- Physiology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0080456154; 9780080456157
• Related ISBNs: 0120883945
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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