Calcium signalling – Approaches and Findings in the Heart and Blood
Lars Kaestner
2013
This book is a habilitation treatise. I aimed to both fulfil the formal requirements of the habilitation treatise as defined in the habilitation regulation of the Medical Faculty at Saarland University and provide a resource for colleagues, students and all that are interested in calcium signalling and/or optical imaging methods to record it. As such, I hope this booklet is more than a file in academic qualification, and that it might also serve as a useful tool whenever the universal messenger calcium crosses the track. The biological examples are recruited from two major fields, cellular cardiology and red cell research. I am grateful to the people who not only introduced me to these subjects, but accompanied my research for many years, who are Prof. Peter Lipp and Prof. Ingolf Bernhardt, respectively. Although both fields seem to be independent, future research, systems biology approaches and translational methods will reveal interconnections going far beyond the obvious ones described in the Introduction.