Biochemistry

African Ethnobotany in the Americas provides the first comprehensive examination of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills among the African Diaspora in the Americas.

This book approaches the subject from a mechanistic perspective that pitches the language at a level that is understandable to those entering the field and who are not familiar with its common phrases or complex terms.

Trees that are indispensably supportive to human life pose a formidable challenge to breed them to suit to human needs.

The Himalayan region is among the largest mountains systems of the world with uncounted unique medicinal plants resources.

In biochemistry, a metalloprotein is a generic term for a protein that contains a metal cofactor.

Molecular Life Sciences: An Encyclopedic Reference will focus on understanding biological phenomena at the level of molecules and their interactions that govern life processes.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology publishes authoritative reviews on the occurrence, effects, and fate of pesticide residues and other environmental contaminants.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology publishes authoritative reviews on the occurrence, effects, and fate of pesticide residues and other environmental contaminants.

Eminent researchers provide broad coverage of plant molecular biology and genetic engineering, detailing technological advances in plant cell transformation and responses.

This collection of 11 chapters is devoted to a survey of artificial and reconsti- tuted membrane systems.

As stated by its first editor, Dr.

International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental communi- ties over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abiotic and biotic en- vironments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published research papers and progress reports, and archival documentations.

This volume contains the Proceedings of the Serono Symposium on Pre- implantation Embryo Development, held in Newton, Massachusetts, in 1991.

Leukocyte adhesion molecules have been the subject of intense basic and preclinical research.

International concern in scientific, industrial, and governmental communi- ties over traces of xenobiotics in foods and in both abiotic and biotic envi- ronments has justified the present triumvirate of specialized publications in this field: comprehensive reviews, rapidly published research papers and progress reports, and archival documentations.

During the past few decades we have witnessed an era of remarkable growth in the field of molecular biology.

TO THE SECOND EDITION When preparing the manuscript for the original edition of this book we were only partly aware of the pace at which the field of membrane transport was developing and at which new ideas as well as new techniques would be applied to it.

Biochemical ecology is here presented only in the context of water pollution.

Over the last decades, the study of surfactants (detergents, for example) has been profoundly changed by ideas and techniques from physics, chemistry, and materials science.

Advances in the field of glycoprotein hormones necessitated a second international symposium on this topic, held March 11 to 14, 1993, in Santa Barbara, California, and again sponsored by Serono Symposia, USA.

The burgeoning interest in biomembranes in recent years has been such that "e;membranology"e; is now virtuMtyasubject in its own right, cutting vertically, as it were, through the strata of conventional disciplines from mathematics and physics, through chemistry, to biology.

Insects as a group occupy a middle ground in the biosphere between bacteria and viruses at one extreme, amphibians and mammals at the other.

The study of gouty arthritis has provided a common meeting ground for the research interests of both the basic scientist and the clinician.

Silicon chemistry was initiated in 1823 by Berzelius who prepared elemental silicon.

Many of the methods now in general use in membrane biology, and not already discussed in satisfactory detail elsewhere, have been covered in the eight previously published volumes of this series.

This volume arose originally from the complaints of the editor's students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, that there was no modern book on protein fibers which told enough about protein science and chemical tech- nologies related to fibers.

The concept that detoxication is the inevitable result of biotransformation of xenobiotic compounds by mammalian systems has undergone modification since it was first described.

Leonidas Zervas, Emeritus Professor of organic chemistry at the University of Athens, and past president of the National Academy of Greece, cele- brated his seventieth birthday this past year.

There is much evidence to suggest that prostaglandins may have a physiological role to play in the control of thyroid gland metabolism, although the precise nature of this role remains to be defined.

This volume is the collection of papers presented during a four day meeting, the EMBO workshop "e;Protein Conformation as an Immunological Signal"e; that took place at Portovenere (La Spezia), Italy, October 1-4, 1981.

This book originated in numerous Gordon Research Conferences and many other meetings of scientists working in chemistry, biophysics, biochemistry, and biology related to mutagenesis and carcinogenesis.

This is the first course devoted to bioelectrochemistry held within the frame- work of the International School of Biophysics.

The main purpose of this book is to unify approaches and ideas in the field of aneural sensory transduction.

Muscular contraction provides one of the most fascinating topics for a biophysicist to study.

Bioelectrochemistry conferences.

This book represents a factual account of the proceedings of an international symposium on the pathophysiology of plasma protein metabolism, which was organised in October 1982 by the Plasmaprotein and Immunology Division of the C.

The third International Meeting on "e;Low Molecular Weight Sulfur Containing Natural Products,"e;sponsored by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, was held in the historical building of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy, June 18-21, 1979.

Heart disease, despite recent improvements, continues to be the single most im- portant cause of death and disability in the United States.

This book is based on the lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "e;Sensory Perception and Transduction in Aneural Organisms"e; held in Volterra (Pisa.

This book is written for the research biochemist who needs to know more about the particular field of dioxygen metabolism, whether this be for designing lectures for a graduate level course or for his or her own research needs.

This book is concerned with the genetic consequences of nu- cleotide pool imbalance.