Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Cell Volume Regulatory Mechanisms — An Overview

   • F. Lang, M. Ritter, H. Völkl, D. Häussinger

   Pages 1-31

3. Cell Volume and Hepatic Metabolism

   • D. Häussinger, W. Gerok, F. Lang

   Pages 33-65

4. Volume Regulation in Transporting Epithelia

   • J. Graf, W. B. Guggino, K. Turnheim

   Pages 67-117

5. Cell Volume and Stimulus-Secretion Coupling

   • A. Kurtz, H. Scholz

   Pages 119-137

6. Cell Volume Regulation and Vascular Endothelial Function

   • W. C. O’Neill

   Pages 139-156

7. Effects of Swelling on Glial Cell Function

   • H. K. Kimelberg, E. R. O’Connor, Helmut Kettenmann

   Pages 157-186

8. Cell Volume Regulation: Intracellular Transmission

   • E. K. Hoffmann, L. O. Simonsen, I. H. Lambert

   Pages 187-248

9. Regulation of Volume-Modulating Ion Transport Systems by Growth Promoters

   • L. Bianchini, S. Grinstein

   Pages 249-277

10. The Regulation of Organelle Function Through Changes in Their Volume

    • A. P. Halestrap

    Pages 279-307

11. Back Matter

    Pages 309-312

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One of the prerequisites for survival is the ability of cells to maintain their volume. Thus, during the course of evolution cells have "learned" a variety of strategies to achieve volume homeostasis. This volume regulatory machinery involves regulation of both, cellular metabolism and cellular transport and is exploited by hormones and transmitters to regulate cellularfunction. This book to illustrates the complex interplay of cell volume regulatory mechanisms and cellular function in a variety of tissues. However, our knowledge is still far from being conclusive, and the present collection of reviews is thought to foster further experimental efforts to unravel the role of cell volume in the integrated function of cells.

• Endothelial cells
• Glial cells
• Volumenregulation, Zellen
• activation
• cell
• cells
• endothelium
• evolution
• ion transport
• membrane
• metabolism
• mitochondria
• physiology
• regulation
• tissue

• Physiologisches Institut, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

  Florian Lang

• Abteilung für Innere Medizin, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

  Dieter Häussinger

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