Biochemistry

This volume contains the proceedings of the EMBO-NATO-CEC Advanced Research Workshop on "e;Guanine-nucleotide binding proteins.

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New textbooks at all levels of chemistry appear with great regularity.

This book was planned and written with one central goal in mind: to demonstrate that statistical thermodynamics can be used successfully by a broad group of scientists, ranging from chemists through biochemists to biologists, who are not and do not intend to become specialists in statistical thermodynamics.

This proceedings volume represents the culmination of nearly three years of planning, organizing and carrying out of a NATO Ad- vanced Study Institute on Biomass Utilization.

In 1978, we had the first research meeting of guanidine compound analysis in Okayama, Japan.

The physiology and pathology of membrane (contact or surface) digestion of the three main components of the food of animals and man is a rapidly developing field, and there is little doubt that newer ob- servations will become available as time progresses.

The bile acids as principal end products of cholesterol metabolism occupy a focal position in our understanding of the role of steroids in bio- logical systems.

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A NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Oxygen Radicals in Biological Systems: Recent Progress and New Methods of Study"e; was held in Braga, Portugal between Sep- tember 1 and September 14, 1985, in order to consider the basic chemistry and biochem- istry of activated oxygen (both radical and non-radical species) and their effect in biolog- ical systems.

These two volumes, entitled "e;Purine Metabolism in Man IV"e; con- tain the papers presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Human Purine and Pyrimidine Metabolism"e;, held in Maastricht (The Netherlands), June 1982.

(Written for the original Russian edition) Out of all the functional groups of protein molecules that be- long to the side chains of amino acid residues, the sulfhydryl or thiol (SH) groups of cysteine residues and the disulfide (S-S) groups of cystine have for long attracted particular attention from chemists and biochemists.

The basal forebrain has received considerable attention in recent years.

Volume 3 continues the approach carried out in the first two volumes of this se ries of publishing articles on membrane methodology which include, in addition to procedural details, incisive discussions of the ap- plications of the methods and of their limitations.

This volume records the proceedings of a Limbic System Sympos- ium held at the University of Toronto, November 5-6th, 1976 as a satellite event to the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society of Neuroscience.

Vaccination, chiefly responsible for the eradication of smallpox and the control of poliomyelitis and German measles in man and of foot-and- mouth, Marek's and Newcastle disease in domestic animals, remains the best answer to infectious diseases.

In recent years there have been rapid advances in the growth and differentiation of mammalian cells in culture.

In this entertaining and accessible exploration of love, Oxford anthropologist Dr Anna Machin dives into the science behind the myriad types of love that exist in the world, including romantic love, parental love, friendships, love for pets, football teams, religious love and even love for our smartphones.

'A fascinating and challenging story' New York Review of Books 'This is an incredibly absorbing and insightful book about the most important scientific question of our age' Mark Miodownik, author of Stuff Matters'The story of the quest to understand life's genesis is a universal one, in which everyone can find pleasure and fascination.

The book "e;Oxadiazole in Material and Medicinal Chemistry"e; is based on the utility of organic motifs that contain oxadiazole units in their molecular architecture.

Environmental contamination poses a significant threat to ecosystems and human health.

This volume in the Subcellular Biochemistry (SCBI) series is a continuation of several previous volumes devoted to the structural and functional study of protein complexes.

This textbook covers the scientific basics of molecular bioengineering, a new field where technology meets biology and chemistry, and the fundamental knowledge required for students to understand molecular mechanisms beyond biological phenomena.

Photodegradation of Water Pollutants, the only complete survey available of current photocatalytic methods for treating water pollutants, covers all aspects of light-stimulated detoxification.

Focused, easy-to-understand, and packed with applications to medicine and health, this book is designed throughout to help you develop the problem-solving skills and understanding of health-related chemistry you'll need in your future career.

Hormones provides a comprehensive treatment of human hormones viewed in the light of modern theories of hormone action and in the context of current understanding of subcellular and cellular architecture and classical organ physiology.

More than 100 years ago, Dr Casimir Funk suggested the existence of a family of organic substances that are essential for life and thus introduced the concept of "e;vital amines"e; as essential nutrients with a specific action, requiring only minute amount with the power to cure a specific disease.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

An indispensable manual unravelling the qualitative and quantitative determination of distilled spirits and fermented liquors.

Shortlisted for the BMA Book Awards and Macavity Awards 2016Fourteen novels.

This introductory textbook on supramolecular chemistry is a thoroughly revised and expanded version of the 1st edition, originally published in 2020.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of cell signaling, molecular interactions, and their implications for human health and diseases.

This open-end treatise on methods concerning pro tein separation had its beginning in an American Chemical Society symposium entitled "e;Con- temporary Protein Separation Methods"e; which was held in Atlantic City, New Jersey in September 1974.

The transItIOn-state theory has been, from the point of its inception, the most influential principle in the development of our knowledge of reaction mechanisms in solution.

The motivation for us to conceive this work on regulation was mainly our belief that it would be fun, and at the same time productive, to approach the subject in a way that differs from that of other treatises.

Although elastin was first identified and purifled in 1840, relatively few, major advances to determine its structure and function occurred between then and 1970.

A coordinated approach using biochemical and immunological tools has given us a better understanding of the structure of the eukaryotic surface membrane.

This volume contains reviews which are based on a symposium, given th at the 30 meeting of The Phytochemical Society of North America, held at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada on August 11-15, 1990.

This volume contains 56 contributions presented at the 1st International Symposium on Post-Translational Modifications of Proteins and Ageing, held on the Island of Ischia (Naples, Italy) from May 11 to 15, 1987, under the auspices of the University of Naples and the Italian Society of Biochemistry.

The meeting on "e;Microbial Surface Components and Toxins in Relation to Pathogenesis"e; was held on May 15-19, 1989, in the Mitzpe Rachel guesthouse of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel in Israel.

This book contains the proceedings of a conference devoted to the study of the structure and function of Terminal deoxynucleotidyl Transferase (TdT) and its utilization as biochemical marker in immuno- biology and leukemia, held in Elba, Italy on May 28-31, 1981.