signal transduction books

	Signal Transduction In Plant Growth And Development (Plant Gene Research)
	By: DESH PAL S., ED. VERMA ISBN: 3211827455 Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG Release Date: 1996 Bioscience book rank: 5914954
	Signal Transduction (Modular Texts in Molecular and Cell Biology, 1)
	By: Carl-Henrik Heldin, Mary Purton ISBN: 0412708108 Publisher: International Thomson Publishing Services Release Date: December, 1996 Bioscience book rank: 3086445	I am a graduate student and I obtained this book one week before my final exam for a one-semester course on signal transduction. The concise text and clear layout of this book helped me a great deal in reviewing the key concepts of this enormous research field. THis book is an excellent guide for students as well as for those aiming for advanced learning. This book is a comprehensive guide to signal transduction. It provides an in depth overview of all the major mechanisms, with tips for further reading. This is an invaluable aid to all studying at advanced Degree level, or higher (Ph.D).
	Signal Transduction Mechanisms (Developments in Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry)
	By: J.A. Barnes, H.G. Coore, Abdul H. Mohammed, Rajendra K. Sharma ISBN: 0792336631 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 30 September, 1997 Bioscience book rank:
	Bacterial Signal Transduction: Networks and Drug Targets (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)
	By: Ryutaro Utsumi ISBN: 0387788840 Publisher: Springer Release Date: May, 2008 Bioscience book rank:
	Plant Hormone Signal Perception and Transduction
	By: A.R. Smith, A.W. Berry, N.V.J. Harpham, I.E. Moshkov, G.V. Novikova, O.N. Kulaeva, M.A. Hall ISBN: 0792337689 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 31 July, 1996 Bioscience book rank: 6106872
	Signal Transduction In Affective Disorders
	By: HIROKI, ED. OZAWA ISBN: 4431702105 Publisher: SPRINGER-VERLAG Release Date: 1998 Bioscience book rank: 4197928	I read 41 different books (and over 500 journal articles) in preparing my new book, The Failures of American Medicine. All of the other books that I have reviewed, I have had to "talk down" to the lay-reader and try to explain in common sense terms why the book is good or bad. Now with this book (overpriced as it is), I finally can write a real scientific review. This book is very good, for what it is---the 5HT-2A signal transduction pathway. Yes, this is probably the main pathway that causes depression (besides HPA axis disregulation, although the 2A pathway is involved with HPA anyway). And it's also the main pathway that helps a person taking SSRI's overcome depression. <p> It explains that the 2A pathway shunts over to the noradrenaline (NA) pathway, thus providing energy and neuronal remodeling and dendrite regrowth. This is a discovery that had previously stumped researchers, because they realized that the 5HT and NA pathways must be interconnected, but they didn't know how they were. However, I think that this book brings to light an even more interesting discovery---patients with severe, suicidal depression have elevated intracellular calcium levels. Not only does the 2A pathway shunt over to the NA pathway, it also funnels into the "calcium" pathway, a complex and often redundant pathway that controls many different cellular functions, including muscle contraction. I believe that somehow the calcium pathway becomes dominant over the NA shunt, and (again, besides HPA axis disregulation) that's why patients become depressed. And certain calcium channel blockers (ex. Nimodopine) can act as antidepressants! Much more research is needed into the calcium field of brain research. The calcium pathway may also be involved in SSRI side effects, since this pathway may be stimulated in some patients, making things potentially worse, or possibly explaining why these patients are treatment-resistant. I have a chapter on this phenomenon in my book, if you care to read about it.
	Signal Transduction and Communication in Cancer Cells (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)
	By: H. Leon Bradlow, Luigi Castagnetta, Luisa Massimo, Kurt Zaenker ISBN: 1573315591 Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences Release Date: 15 January, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 3623965
	Stem Cell Factor Induced Signal Transduction (Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine, 1142)
	By: Johan Lennartsson ISBN: 9155452914 Publisher: Uppsala Universitet Release Date: May, 2002 Bioscience book rank:
	CALBIOCHEM- TOOLS FOR SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION AND LIFE SCIENCE RESEARCH, INCLUDING ONCOGENE RESEARCH PRODUCTS
	By: Unknown ISBN: B0010L5PAI Publisher: EMD Biosciences Release Date: 2005 Bioscience book rank:
	The Mobile Receptor Hypothesis: Membrane Receptor Lateral Movement in Signal Transduction (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit)
	By: David A. Jans ISBN: 1570594376 Publisher: Landes Bioscience Release Date: March, 1997 Bioscience book rank: 6271237