The Na+, K+ Pumps Keep Us Going
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The Na+, K+ Pumps Keep Us Going

  1. 120 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Na+, K+ Pumps Keep Us Going

About this book

Every second throughout life, billions of sodium-potassium pumps enable the human muscle cells to function. The pump is an enzyme found in the plasma membrane of all animal cells and is an important example of active transport. The Na+, K+-pumps keep us going by pumping sodium out of cells while pumping potassium into cells and without them, we would not survive. Addressed to specialists in the field of biomedicine, the author presents a thorough overview of his scientific results over more than 40 years. The book is richly illustrated and seeks to explain how a single molecule creates the required conditions for our muscles to work.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Titlepage
  3. Colophon
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. The Na+, K+ pump and its discovery
  7. The Transport and distribution of Na+ and K+ in skeletal muscle and how they are quantified
  8. Rapid passive fluxes of Na+ and K+ start muscle contraction and set a limit to excitability
  9. The definition, structure and function of the Na+, K+-pump
  10. The synthesis and localization of the Na+, K+ pumps in skeletal muscle
  11. Measurements of the content of [3H]ouabain binding sites indicate that in skeletal muscle, the major part of these binding sites of the Na+, K+ pumps are localized on the outer surface of sarcolemma and in the t-tubules
  12. The content of Na+, K+ pumps in skeletal muscles and how it can be quantified
  13. Muscle contractions, Na+, K+ transport and sodium potassium fatigue
  14. The rate of [3H]ouabain binding to sarcolemma can be quantified and what information may this provide?
  15. Measurements of [3H]ouabain binding to other cell types and preparations
  16. Acute and long-term regulation of Na+, K+ pumps in skeletal muscle
  17. Catecholamines and caffeine
  18. Peptide hormones stimulating the Na+, K+pumps
  19. Insulin-like growth Factor-I (IGF-I)
  20. CGRP and other calcitonins
  21. Amylin, related peptides, and other stimuli for the Na+, K+-pumps
  22. The importance of Na+-influx in causing depolarization and muscle fatigue
  23. Effect of varying Na+, K+-pump stimulating agents on intracellular Na+ in rat soleus muscles and how this may compensate functional defects caused by plasma membrane leakage
  24. Long-Term Regulation of Na+, K+ Pump Content
  25. Training, inactivity and denervation
  26. Muscular dystrophy and McArdle disease
  27. Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis in horses, human subjects and mutant mice with a similar genetic anomaly
  28. K+ deficiency and K+ restoration
  29. Thyroid hormones and starvation
  30. Thermogenic actions of thyroid hormones and malignant hyperthermia (MH)
  31. Diabetes
  32. Steroid hormones, Glucocorticoids, Aldosterone
  33. Major Conclusions and General Perspectives
  34. References