Part I: Data Analysis and Modern Technologies to Study Calcium-Binding and Signaling in Cells
1. Using Data Mining to Explore Calmodulin Bibliography
Jacques Haiech and Marie-Claude Kilhoffer
2. Deep Two-Photon Imaging In Vivo with a Red-Shifted Calcium Indicator
Antje Birkner and Arthur Konnerth
3. High Resolution Calcium Imaging Method for Local Calcium Signaling
Björn-Philipp Diercks, René Werner, Daniel Schetelig, Insa M.A. Wolf, and Andreas H. Guse
4. Measurement of Contractility and Calcium Release in Cardiac Spheroids
Christian Zuppinger
5. Simultaneous Recording of Subcellular Ca2+ Signals from the Cytosol and Sarco/Endoplasmatic Reticulum: Compartmentalized Dye Loading, Imaging, and Analysis
Ernst Niggli and Miguel Fernandez-Tenorio
6. The Use of Complementary Luminescent and Fluorescent Techniques for Imaging Ca2+ Signalling Events during the Early Development of Zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Sarah E. Webb and Andrew L. Miller
7. Cellular Ca2+-Responding Nanoluciferase Reporter Gene System Directed by Tandemly Repeated Pseudo-Palindromic NFAT-Response Elements
Wei Zhang, Terunao Takahara, Takuya Achiha, Hideki Shibata, and Masatoshi Maki
8. Designing Calcium Binding Proteins for Molecular MR Imaging
Mani Salarian, Shenghui Xue, Oluwatosin Y. Ibhagui, and Jenny J. Yang
9. Coordination to Divalent Cations by Calcium Binding Proteins
Masayuki Nara, Hisayuki Morii, and Masaru Tanokura
10. Chaperoning against Amyloid Aggregation: Monitoring In Vitro and In Vivo
Ravichandran Vignesh and Gopala Krishna Aradhyam
Part II: The Superfamily of Calcium-Binding Proteins Characterized by the EF-Hand Structural Motif
11. Ca2+-Binding Proteins of the EF-Hand Superfamily: Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers and Novel Therapeutic Targets
Claus W. Heizmann
12. Gene Transfer of Calcium Binding Proteins into Adult Cardiac Myocytes
Brian R. Thompson, Houda Cohen, Addeli Bez Batti Angulski, and Joseph M. Metzger
13. Expression and Purification of Calmodulin for NMR and Other Biophysical Applications
Benjamin Grant, Chris Marshall, and Mitsu Ikura
14. The Use of Cre-loxP Inducible Mouse Models to Dissect the Specific Roles of Calcineurin Signalling in Myeloid Cells
Teresa Zelante and Jan Frič
15. Calpain Purification through Calpastatin and Calcium: Strategy and Procedures
Hung Huy Nguyen,
