This textbook brings together and puts into perspective current knowledge of intra-cellular signalling systems within animals. The ordered growth and functioning of animal cells requires the transfer of information from one part of the cell to another. This information comes from a variety of sources, both within and outside the cell. Hormones, neurotransmitters, growth factors and extra-cellular metabolites interact with specific receptors on the plasma membrane or in the cytoplasm. Inside the cell, information is relayed by intra-cellular messengers including cyclic nucleotides, inositol polyphosphates, diacylglycerol and calcium, GTP-binding proteins, protein kinases and DNA-binding proteins. Finely balanced interactions between these different signalling pathways ensure that the required response occurs and abnormalities in any of the components of the system can lead to a variety of diseases, including cancer.
Reviews
`This is a first edition of a remarkable book.' `This is an excellent book, well written and illustrated with key references throughout the text. This book will be read by preclinical dental and medical students and no dental school library should be without one.' European Journal of Orthodontics
'a long-awaited textbook of signal transduction ... The wait has been worth it - the book is excellent. I recommend this book enthusiastically to any student, practitioner, teacher or observer of the subject of signal transduction. It is not only an ideal teaching text, but also a valuable research resource as well. Dr Barritt has a refreshing modesty about his intentions in writing this book, but I would go so far as to predict that Communication within Animal Cells will become a core textbook, perhaps even a classic, in the field.' Michael R. Hanley, UCD School of Medicine, Davis, Ca., Trends in Cell Biology, Vol. 2 November 1992
'The high quality of this text owes much to the excellent standard of its illustrations, and overall it successfully covers a wide and rapidly developing topic at the requisite level for its target audience of advanced undergraduate and graduate students.' R.P. Newton, FEBS Letters, September 1992
'An extremely readable monograph for senior undergraduates and the like which provides an excellent introduction to the highly complex and fast-moving field of intracellular communication.' Aslib Book Guide, Vol. 57, No. 10, October 1992
'Written in a clear and authoritative style, with many illustrations, it will be invaluable to students on advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. It also provides a detailed introduction to a review of this central topic for researchers in cell biology and related disciplines.' Anticancer Research 12: (1992)
'Those who have had the good fortune to be taught by Professor Barritt as undergraduates well remember the wonderful clarity of his lectures, the flow of the ideas he presented and the delight of his lecture notes ... his book on "Communication Within Anmimal Cells" is a delight to read, not only for its scientific content but also for its flawless presentation. Such is the style of the presentation ... that the reader finishes it feeling that he has gained enormously in scientific concepts at the cost of an embarassingly small effort. Cleanly flowing text coupled with an abundance of uncluttered line drawings allow the ideas to form effortlessly in the reader's understanding ... wide ranging text ... a book which deserves to be widely read.' Richard G. Ryall, Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide, The Clinical Biochemist Newsletter, March 1993



Book Information
ISBN 9780198547266
Author Greg J. Barritt
Format Paperback
Page Count 360
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 787g
Dimensions(mm) 244mm * 187mm * 23mm