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This is a comprehensive research guide that describes both the key new techniques and more established methods. Every chapter discusses the merits and limitations of the various approaches and then provides selected tried-and-tested protocols, as well as a plethora of...
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Wiley
Parution :
2011-03-16
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This compendium of research material on the role of oxidative stress in animal disease and morbidity examines both the general and the specific. Sourced from scientists, veterinarians, and members of the medical community from around the world, it includes chapters on...
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2011-03-03
Collection :
Oxidative Stress in Applied Basic Research and Clinical Practice
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Knowledge of the extracellular matrix (ECM) is essential to understand cellular differentiation, tissue development, and tissue remodeling.This volume of the series “Biology of Extracellular Matrix” provides a timely overview of the structure, regulation, and function...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-02-16
Collection :
Biology of Extracellular Matrix
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Microbial physiology, biochemistry, and genetics allowed the formulation of concepts that turned out to be important in the study of higher organisms.
In the first section, the principles of bacterial growth are given, as well as the description of the different layers...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-02-02
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Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), tentatively defined as ncRNAs of more than two hundred nucleotides in length, are characterized by the complexity and diversity of their sequences and mechanisms of action. Based on genome-wide studies, more than 3,300 of them exist, but...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2011-02-01
Collection :
Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology
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Mechanical stress is vital to the functioning of the body, especially for tissues such as bone, muscle, heart, and vessels. It is well known that astronauts and bedridden patients suffer muscle and bone loss from lack of use. Even the heart, in pumping blood, causes...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-12-28
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Conditions such as oxidative stress and hypoxia, which have a generalized impact on the oxygen metabolism, have been implicated in the genesis of kidney disease. This means that deepening our understanding of the pathobiology of oxygen metabolism in such diseases could...
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2010-12-17
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Immunotherapy is now recognized as an essential component of treatment for a wide
variety of cancers. It is an interdisciplinary field that is critically dependent upon an
improved understanding of a vast network of cross-regulatory cellular populations and
a diversity...
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2010-12-03
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This book describes these exciting new developments, and presents experimental and computational findings that altogether describe the frontier of knowledge in cellular and biomolecular mechanics, and the biological implications, in health and disease. The book is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-12-02
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As life expectancy increases and population ages, the already enormous impact of neurodegeneration on society will become even larger without better prevention and treatment. Developing strategies to prevent degeneration of neurons and to promote a healthy nervous...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-11-29
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In the last decade, fluorescence microscopy has evolved from a classical “retrospective” microscopy approach into an advanced imaging technique that allows the observation of cellular activities in living cells with increased resolution and dimensions. A bright new...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-11-25
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The role of free radicals and oxidative stress in neurological disorders has only recently been recognized, leaving clinical neurologists to seek in vain for information on the subject even in major textbooks. What published information there is may consist of brief...
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2010-11-19
Collection :
Oxidative Stress in Applied Basic Research and Clinical Practice
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This book presents the latest findings in the field of research of mechanosensitivity and mechanotransduction in different cells and tissues. Mechanosensitivity and mechanotransduction of the heart and vascular cells, in the lung, in bone and joint tissues, in sensor...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-11-18
Collection :
Mechanosensitivity in Cells and Tissues
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Neurons in the nervous system organize into complex networks and their functions are precisely controlled. The most important means for neurons to communicate with each other is transmission through chemical synapses, where the release of neurotransmitters by the...
Editeur :
Humana
Parution :
2010-11-16
Collection :
Advances in Neurobiology
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This book encompasses the exciting developments and challenges in the fast-moving and rapidly expanding research field of single-molecule kinetic analysis of cell signaling that promises to be one of the most significant and exciting areas of biological research for the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-11-04
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In the last ten years there has been a considerable increase of interest on the notion of the minimal cell. With this term we usually mean a cell-like structure containing the minimal and sufficient number of components to be defined as alive, or at least capable of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-11-01
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This book will cover both the evidence for biofilms in many chronic bacterial infections as well as the problems facing these infections such as diagnostics and treatment regimes. A still increasing interest and emphasis on the sessile bacterial lifestyle biofilms has...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-10-23
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Folding for the Synapse addresses the current view on how protein folding and misfolding, controlled by molecular chaperones, contribute to synapse function and dysfunction. Molecular chaperones have been studied in relation to de novo protein folding, but there is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-10-22
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Post-translational modifications serve many different purposes in several cellular processes such as gene expression, protein folding and transport to appropriate cell compartment, protein-lipid and protein-protein interactions, enzyme regulation, signal transduction,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-10-13
Collection :
Protein Reviews
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Depite the rapid expansion of the field of biophysics, there are very few books that comprehensively treat specific topics in this area. Recently, the field of single molecule biophysics has developed very quickly, and a few books specifically treating single molecule...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2010-10-05
Collection :
Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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