Biochemistry

Specialists in biochemistry and cell biology of cellular communication give an overview of current knowledge in this field.

In July 1989 a symposium was held at the Physiology Department of the Georg August University, G6ttingen, on the physiological, biophysical, biochemical, and technical principles of the coding of chemical substances both in nervous systems and artificial devices.

As indicated in the Preface, the contributions to this volume are based upon the papers presented at the symposium on Thermoreceptors and Temperature Regula- tion held in July 1988 at the Institute of Physiology of the University of Marburg (Federal Republic of Germany) to celebrate and commemorate the life and achievements of HERBERT HENSEL, who directed that Institute from 1955 until his death in 1983, and whose most notable and significant contributions to thermo- physiology were in the areas of the properties and characteristics of thermo sensors, mammalian thermoregulation more generally, and the psychophysiology of ther- mal sensation.

Recent years have seen tremendous progress in the field of hormone action and consequent signal transduction.

The third component of complement, C3, is one of the most versatile proteins and an important participant in immune surveillance and immune response pathways.

The human nail is formed from variably keratinized epithelial structures.

Fungal diseases have been with us from antiquity; interest in the chemo- therapy of fungal disease has exploded in the past decade.

The third volume of "e;Advances in Forensic Haemogenetics"e; contains the th scientific contributions presented at the 13 Congress of the International Society for Forensic Haemogenetics, held on October 19-21, 1989 in New Orleans, USA.

Dieses Buch stellt das erste deutschsprachige Werk dar, in dem die neuen, grundlegenden Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der Molekularbiologie und Molekulargenetik vor dem Hintergrund ihrer Bedeutung für die klinische und wissenschaftliche Humanmedizin beschrieben und diskutiert werden.

This book is intended to collect in one place as much information as possible on the use of EPR spectroscopy in the analysis of systems in which two or more spins are magnetically coupled.

Over the past few years there has been a remarkable and rapid development of modern analytical methods, and the fields of nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry have been no exception.

The clinical biochemistry ofhepatobiliary diseases is very widely studied, and publica- tions abound on this topic.

Plant productivity depends upon the photosynthetic conversion of the light energy into chemical energy stored in the biomass of plants.

Despite the many advances made during the last decade in various aspects of fungal biochemistry, there have been very few volumes devoted to the sub- ject in recent years.

A NATO Advanced study Institute on "e;Receptors, Membrane Trans- port and Signal Transduction"e;, was held on the Island of Spet- sai, Greece, from August 16-27, 1988, in order to consider re- cent developments in membrane receptor research, membrane trans- port and signal transduction mechanisms.

Membrane proteins, lipids and their glycosylated derivatives are discussed both with respect to their biosynthesis as well as regarding their mutual interaction and assembly into functional membranes.

Whereas platinum compounds are already clinically used as anticancer agents, tin compounds exhibiting high enough antitumour activity have not yet been found to enter the clinical phase.

This workshop was the second of this series held on the island of santorini in the Cycladic Sea.

The relatively simple, stratified nature of the retina and its spe- fied use in the visual process has long made it an inviting tissue to study both for its own sake and as a model for the more complex processes of the brain.

It is fourteen years since insulin was last reviewed in The Handbook of Ex- perimental Pharmacology, in volume 32.

When survival is challenged by the cold, animals react by employing both behavioral and physiological solutions.

The papers in this book were presented at the 6th Workshop on Mechanisms in B-Cell Neoplasia, held in Bethesda, March 23-25, 1988.

Many bacteria, such as certain Neisseria and Haemophilus or Escherichia coli, are able to withstand the bactericidal activity of complement and phagocytes.

Das Endokrinium betreffende Erkrankungen des Hypothalamus, des Hypophysenvorderlappens und -hinterlappens, der Hoden und Ovarien sowie der Nebennierenrinde und des -marks sind Gegenstand dieses Buches.

The first three chapters of Vol.

At the end of the initial meeting on Primary and Secondary Metabolism of Plant Cell Cultures at Schloss Rauischholzhausen, it was decided to convene similar events on a regular basis midway between the International Congress for Plant Tissue and Cell Cul- ture.

The 13th International Conference on Plant Growth Substances was held from the 17th to the 26th July, 1988 in Calgary, Alberta Canada under the auspices of the IPGSA (International Plant Growth Substances Association) and the University of Calgary.

In order to provide a functional organisation of the various biochemical processes, the intracellular environment is subdivided into compartments formed by organelles.

Cytochromes c are haemoproteins which carry out electron transfer in a wide variety of biological systems, necessitating different kinds of cytochrome c to fulfill different biological roles.

The present new version of this popular laboratory manual is at the same time the first one of this text in the English language - and this makes me even a little proud, as it reminds me of probably the first collection of monoclonal recipes in English, written by myself, which circulated for a couple of years in many laboratories.

Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology helps biologists, physiologists, and biochemists keep track of the extensive literature in the field.

The aim of electron probe microanalysis of biological systems is to identify, localize, and quantify elements, mass, and water in cells and tissues.

It is common practice to publish conference papers in books or monograph series.

Hepatic cells are involved in the metabolization and elimination of a variety of endogenous and exogenous substances.

Protein engineering has had considerable impact on basic and applied research in biochemistry and molecular biology.

The acetylcholine nicotinic receptor is an ionic channel whose aperture is directly controlled by acetylcholine.

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After the discovery of the function of MHC molecules, namely to provide the context for T cell recognition of foreign antigens, in 1974 Zinkernagel and Doherty made the first drawing of MHC+X (Fig.

In this volume the contributions of the 2nd International EBSA (European Biophysical Societies Association) Symposium devoted to the biophysical and biochemical aspects of the structure and interaction of cytoskeletal and extracellular proteins are presented.

This is the first book to summarize experimental results from the new, rapidly expanding field of research into the calcium channel in cell membrane.

Der Band 8 des bewährten und erfolgreichen Laborhandbuches für Analytiker stellt aktuelle Methoden der chemischen, klinisch-chemischen und Umweltanalytik praxisnah dar.

This manual on "e;Dynamics of Membrane Proteins and Cellular Energetics"e; is the result of a FEBS-CNRS Course held in Grenoble and Besanc;{on in September 1987.

Die Spektroradiometrie hat durch die Verfügbarkeit empfindlicher Strahlungsempfänger und neuartiger Strahlungsquellen in den letzten Jahrzehnten für alle Spektralbereiche an Bedeutung gewonnen.