Contents
1. Aspects of Cell Signalling
2. Extracellular Signals - Hormones, Cytokines, Growth Factors
3. Detection of Extracellular Signals: The Role of Receptors
4. Protein Phosphorylation, Kinases and Phosphatases
5. Cyclic Nucleotides, Cyclases and G Proteins
6. Inositol Phosphate Metabolism and Roles of Membrane Lipids
7. Intracellular Calcium: Its Control and Role as an Intracellular Signal
8. Reactive Oxygen Species, Reactive Nitrogen Species and Redox Signalling
9. Insulin and the Signal Transduction Cascades it Invokes
10. Perception of the Environment
11. Life, death, and Apoptosis
12. Cell Signalling: Importance, Complexity and Future