Chromogranins : Functional and Clinical Aspects - Helle, Karen B.; Aunis, Dominique; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2002)
The Chromogranins -- Chromogranins: Current Concepts -- Intracellular Functions -- Signal-Mediated Sorting of Chromogranins to Secretory Granules -- The Condensed Matrix of Mature Chromaffin Granules -- Functional Role of Chromogranins -- Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptor and Chromogranins A and B in Secretory Granules -- Transcription, Expression, and Secretion -- Regulation of Chromogranin a Transcription and Catecholamine Secretion by the Neuropeptide Pacap -- Neuroendocrine Cell-Specific Expression and Regulation of the Human Secretogranin II Gene -- Characterization of Chromogranins in the Frog Rana ridibunda -- Expression of Equine Chromogranin A -- Salivary Secretion of Chromogranin A Control by Autonomic Nervous System -- Tissue-Specific Processing, Transport, and Distribution -- Proteolytic Processing of Chromogranins -- Endothelial Handling of Chromogranin A -- Tissue Plasminogen Activator and Chromaffin Cell Function -- Chromogranin A Immunoreactivity in Neuroendocrine Cells in the Human Gastrointestinal Tract and Pancreas -- Chromogranin A and Its Derived Peptides in the Rat and Procine Gastro-Entero-Pancreatic System -- Functional Aspects of Biologically Active Sequences -- Regulation of Parathyroid Secretion -- Vasostatins -- Vasostatins -- Pancreastatin -- The Novel Catecholamine Release-Inhibitory Peptide Catestatin (Chromogranin A344-364) -- Secretoneurin - A Novel Link Between The Nervous and the Immune System -- Chromogranin A Induces a Neurotoxic Phenotype in Brain Microglial Cells -- Antibacterial and Antifungal Peptides Derived from Chromogranins and Proenkephalin-A -- Clinical Aspects of the Circulating Prohormones -- Measurements of Chromogranins and Chromogranin-Related Peptides by Immunological Methods -- Chromogranins as Diagnostic and Prognostic Markers in Neuroendocrine Tumours -- Assessment of Chromogranin a Using Two-Site Immunoassay -- Chromogranin A and Tumor Necrosis Factor-? (TNF) in Chronic Heart Failure -- Chromogranin A (CGA) and the Enterochromaffin-Like (ECL) Cell -- Chromogranins in Non-Endocrine Tumours -- Concluding Remarks -- Chromogranin A in Human Disease -- A Physiological Role for the Granins as Prohormones for Homeostatically Important Regulatory Peptides?.
Keywords: Neurosciences; Oncology .; Cardiology; Pharmacology; Biochemistry; Neurosciences; Oncology; Cardiology; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Biochemistry, general