Lipid Signaling in Human Diseases

Lipids are an integral part of cell membrane architecture, are intermediaries in cell metabolism, and are involved in transmitting cell signals from hormones, growth factors and nutrients. A number of lipases and phospholipases, lipid kinases, lipid

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Julian Gomez-Cambronero Michael A. Frohman   Editors

Lipid Signaling in Human Diseases

Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology Volume 259 Editor-in-Chief James E. Barrett, Philadelphia

Editorial Board Veit Flockerzi, Homburg Michael A. Frohman, Stony Brook Pierangelo Geppetti, Florence Franz B. Hofmann, München Martin C. Michel, Mainz Clive P. Page, London Walter Rosenthal, Jena KeWei Wang, Qingdao

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Julian Gomez-Cambronero • Michael A. Frohman Editors

Lipid Signaling in Human Diseases

Editors Julian Gomez-Cambronero Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Wright State University Dayton, OH, USA

Michael A. Frohman Department of Pharmacological Sciences Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY, USA

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In memory of Dr. Julian Gomez-Cambronero

Preface

Lipid signaling, of the type covered in this HEP volume, has been a topic of investigation for upwards of three-quarters of a century, starting wit