Research on the study of membrane toxicity has advanced a great deal in a relatively short period of time, prompting scientists to re-examine the problems associated with carriers, receptors and reactors to toxic substances.
An Fe- and Cu-Protein Symposium was held on December 15-18, 1975 at the East West Center-University of Hawaii and was sponsored by the United States-Japan Cooperative Science Program under the auspices of the National Science Foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Much of the information currently available on the transport systems of bacterial and animal cell membranes and their mode of coupling to metabolic supply of energy can be found in this volume.
The Genetics of Aging is divided into several sections in an attempt to provide a logical progression from the level of the genome to the realm of human genetics.
Low density lipoproteins (LDL) are pathophysiologically important be- cause of their central role in the disease atherosclerosis and because atherosclerosis is the leading cause of death in developed countries.
The problem of electron transfer phosphorylation was first formu- lated in 1939 by Belitser and Tsibakova I who introduced the "e;P: 0"e; criterion and showed that this ratio is more than 1.
In the world outside the laboratory, life goes on in a chang- ing rather than in a constant environment and organisms must continually accommodate to changes in temperature, light, humidity, nutrition, etc.
The Symposium on Membrane Processes in Industry and Biomedicine has been held under the sponsorship of the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry at the 160th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Chicago, Illinois, September 16 and 17, 1970.
The riddle of the biochemical nature of drug dependence of the opiate type has stimulated many studies directed toward understanding the molecular basis of the action of opiates, and, particularly, the phenomena of tolerance, physical dependence, and drug-seeking behavior-phenomena exhibited by man and experimental animals exposed persistently to these drugs.
Under the broad heading of blood oxygenation there may be specific areas of study, such as the kinetics of the oxygen- hemoglobin reaction, diffusion of gases through the red cell, blood preservation, blood chemistry, oxygen electrode design and the design and evaluation of artificial blood oxygenators.
This book is a collection of papers derived from a conference on membranes held at the Columbus Laboratories of Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, on October 20 and 21,1969.
The Editors are sorry that the production of this volume was delayed by the ill- health of one of them and we hope that this does not detract from the value of the con- tents.
In current thinking, Bioorganic Chemistry may be defined as the area of chemistry which lies in the border region between organic chemistry and biology and which describes and analyzes biological phenomena in terms of detailed molecular structures and molecular mechanisms.
This volume contains edited contributions from the speakers at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "e;DNA Repair Mechanisms and Their Biological Implications in Mammalian Cells"e; held October 1-6, 1988, at the Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, Fontevraud France.
Intoxication of humans and animals has become increasingly important in recent years as has contamination of the environment by a variety of chemicals.
Czechoslovak Society for Microbiology and Institute of Microbiology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences organized an international symposium "e;Extracellular enzymes of microorganisms"e; in September 1986.
Atherosclerosis which accounts in Western Europe for more than 40 % of deaths, is a generalized disease that develops slowly and is symptomless until lesions have become sufficiently severe to cause myocardial or cerebral infarction.
Current interest in lipoprotein deficiency states stems from the growing realization of their importance in the etiology of premature coronary heart disease.
The motivation for us to conceive this series of volumes 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.
The following remarks are intended to serve as an introduction to this particular volume as well as to the whole series of volumes of which this is the first.
This volume is the second part of the book on "e;Chromatin Structure and Function"e;, which resulted from a NATO-Advanced Study Institute held at Erice during April 1978.
Fluorescence and phosphorescence are proving to be extremely sensitive probes for elucidating conformation of proteins and nucleic acids and for studying molecular interactions.
As stated in the preface to the first edition, this book is intended to be a review and not a comprehensive textbook of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Although there are a number of comprehensive books in clinical micro- biology, there remains a need for a manual that can be used in the clinical laboratory to guide the daily performance of its work.
